developer

American  

[dih-vel-uh-per] / dɪˈvɛl ə pər /

noun

1. a person or thing that develops or innovates.

   a software developer.

2. Photography. a reducing agent or solution for developing developing a film or the like.

3. 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.

4. Shipbuilding. a person who lays out at full size the lines of a vessel and prepares templates from them.

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developer British  

/ dɪˈvɛləpə /

noun

1. a person or thing that develops something, esp a person who develops property

2. 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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Etymology

Origin of developer

First recorded in 1825–35; develop + -er ¹

Example Sentences

LLM developers like OpenAI are directing much of the mammoth investment they have received into Nvidia's products, rushing to build GPU-stuffed data centres to serve an anticipated flood of demand for AI services.

From Barron's

Built by a private developer, it will be converted into student residences after the Paralympic Games from March 6-15.

From Barron's

At the company’s annual developers conference this spring, we’ll likely see the first fruits of Apple’s AI collaboration with Google.

From Barron's

Neighbors judge one another for selling off family homesteads to developers.

From The Wall Street Journal

Gen. Rob Bonta and billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso weighed entering the contest.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• builder
• planner