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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In an earlier incident an OpenAI system accessed the internet and breached the open-source developer platform Hugging Face.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Enerflex stock rises sharply after it secures a contract to build generators for a data center developer.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
She defeated real estate developer Rick Caruso by about 10 percentage points, even after he spent more than $100 million on his campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Carnegie Mellon’s new Miami campus will sit on a site purchased from developer Moishe Mana for an undisclosed sum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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
That numbers-backed thinking means engineers, software developers or entrepreneurs might all find it more appealing than humanities graduates, Lechterman said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Still, Chinese investors, academics and developers remain interested in the technology, Chee said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Arguably the biggest change is to Area Planning Commissions, a group of seven volunteer-led boards that hear cases from homeowners, developers and businesses and make rulings on liquor licenses, hillside developments and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
He said he cannot believe, nearly ten years after the fire, that government officials, the fire safety industry and developers are still wrestling with the definition of what is safe.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
They were built by Jason’s dad, who is one of the richest land developers in Florida.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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