developer
Americannoun
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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
Etymology
Origin of developer
Example Sentences
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The game design award went to Tonda Ros, the solo developer behind puzzle adventure Blue Prince.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
ChatGPT developer OpenAI has already struck a multibillion-dollar agreement to buy computing capacity from Cerebras, according to The Wall Street Journal.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
“Even against a backdrop of prominent layoffs, the underlying signals point to a broader and more leveraged developer base.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
“If you have a software-engineering degree, rather than focusing only on traditional developer roles, you could consider growth areas like artificial intelligence, data infrastructure, cybersecurity and cloud computing. Many skills apply across industries,” Puri said.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
In Georgia, he was the kind of web developer who made money, until he got laid off the day before Christmas.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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