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.
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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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The connection between Burbank-based Disney and Epic Games has only deepened since 2024, when the Mouse House invested $1.5 billion in the Cary, N.C., game developer for an undisclosed minority stake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The deal is backed by a commitment from Nvidia aimed at helping the developer raise debt financing without exposing the chip maker to a substantial amount of risk, people familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“They put on the agenda that they were going to discuss a conversation that the mayor had with the county judge and a developer of a possible data center going to our area,” she says.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Fantasy Parliament, external is a browser-based game designed by another UK-based developer, Evan Roberts, which lets players draft their own fantasy league of real-world MPs, scoring points based on their real-life media coverage.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The developer had even started running pipes across National Park land in the confident—but, as it happened, mistaken—presumption that the Park Service wouldn’t have the will or money to stop him.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
She also worked with urban developers on pedestrian bridges and walkways in Kyiv.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
To go ahead with a change of use under the new rules, developers will need to provide evidence that there is no reasonable prospect of keeping a pub business running.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Niman said he and Schell also wanted to preserve the land from developers and “wealthy people from the Central Valley,” who were moving to the area to build second homes, golf courses and four-lane highways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
As the University of Pennsylvania’s Lee put it, Google is running a different AI strategy than companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, which are primarily developing models and selling tokens to application developers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
His house is on part of the land that Uncle Drum sold to the developers.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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