developer
Americannoun
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developers
plural
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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 a letter to residents, the developer and buildings management said about £300,000 is owed to the gas provider and £300,000 to the electricity provider.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
The effect is already visible at Vercel, a developer platform that routes requests across AI models.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
The property was sold to luxury developer Dean McKillen, son of Irish businessman Paddy McKillen.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
The prospect of a lengthy delay prompted the chief executive of developer Metrobloks to withdraw and focus on other developments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Here she wouldn't be Dimple Shah, wayward, Americanized daughter of immigrant parents; she’d be just Dimple Shah, future web developer.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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
I think this attempt could be more successful among the pro set: creatives like photographers and designers, and perhaps developers who want to use their Macs to test their apps’ touch interactions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Big investors are piling into industrial outdoor storage, seizing on demand from data-center developers for these 10-acre yards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
“Considering the wide use of TPUs by AI developers, these conditions seem remarkably unlikely to us,” Stein said in a note to clients.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 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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