developer

[dih-vel-uh-per]

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.

developer

/ 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of developer¹

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

Example Sentences

Google’s dual role as a top cloud provider and leading developer of large language models also helps it maintain a competitive edge over rivals and provide a catalyst for Alphabet shares.

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The club is poised to open in late fall with more than 450 members, including Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence and Shanna Khan, a property developer and part owner of the team.

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Those cuts included many technology workers, including application developers and engineers, according to state records.

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Who knows if OpenAI and other developers will be able to generate the revenue to pay for their massive investments.

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Its early model focused on highlighting game creators’ works as art, referring to its developers and programmers as “software artists.”

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