developer
Americannoun
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developers
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a person or thing that develops or innovates.
a software developer.
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Photography. a reducing agent or solution for developing a film or the like.
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a person who invests in and develops the urban or suburban potentialities of real estate, especially by subdividing the land into home sites and then building houses and selling them.
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Shipbuilding. a person who lays out at full size the lines of a vessel and prepares templates from them.
noun
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a person or thing that develops something, esp a person who develops property
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photog a solution of a chemical reducing agent that converts the latent image recorded in the emulsion of a film or paper into a visible image
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Intel is acquiring software developer Classiq in a bid to help its quantum effort ‘mature into a mainstream computing business.’
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
Their new ownership group, led by real-estate developer Patrick Zalupski, hopes that a new stadium in Tampa scheduled to open in 2029 will solve their attendance woes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
To help make the project financially feasible for the developer, the city endorsed advertising on the building in the form of five static displays and one full-motion video billboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
The property was sold to luxury developer Dean McKillen, son of Irish businessman Paddy McKillen.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
“We’re experiencing a transition—from a town to a city,” said I. David Porras, a developer who tooled around in a Lear jet with red leather seats and painted black on the outside.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
A separate law lets tribes comment on general plans that outline where developers can propose housing, and commercial and industrial facilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Lambda is a “neocloud” startup, like Coreweave, that uses borrowed money to buy chips and rent their computational power to AI developers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Model developers Anthropic and OpenAI were still pretty secretive about the state of their finances, and concentration became another worry.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
The judge, Lord Ericht, said the fields' developers could carry on with work short of producing oil and gas while they provided more detailed environmental assessments for the government and regulators to consider.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
With their price-pointed subdivisions, developers create pecking orders.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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