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
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Beyer Blinder Belle, lead developer on the building's exterior, enlisted a speciality manufacturer in California to replicate and restore thousands of terra-cotta pieces from the facade, reinstalling each by hand.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The project represents the first site in which OpenAI is the lead designer and developer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Witkoff quit his firm and became a developer, first of what weren’t very sexy buildings in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Microsoft on Tuesday sought to reassure European users with a "multi-billion-dollar" deal to rent AI infrastructure from Mistral, hoisting the French developer into the lucrative business of renting compute capacity.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
She would crack the bathroom window and go to bed, and by the time Pearl woke, the sour smell of developer would be gone.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
A government spokesperson said: "People's homes must be designed to minimise unwanted heat and developers can choose to install air con in buildings. We're reviewing these rules to ensure they're as effective as possible."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
After Fable disappeared, Chinese model GLM-5.2 launched and became a lifeline for stranded developers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
In March, developers affiliated with China's Alibaba found one of their models trying, on its own initiative, to mine cryptocurrency after connecting without authorization to an outside server.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Sandy Steers, former executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley, helped broker the deal between the land trust and developers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
How we have been selling off chunks of the orchard to developers.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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