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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 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 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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of developer

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

Example Sentences

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"Mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree, independent game developer by experience, teacher by birth," according to his profile, which noted that he had an undergraduate degree from the California Institute of Technology.

From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026

CRG, the St. Louis-based developer behind the data center, last year looked to sell land for a data-center development in the upscale Missouri city of St. Charles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

Allen describes himself as a mechanical engineer, game developer and teacher on LinkedIn.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

Created last year by Canadian software developer Ali Waseem to curb his own bad phone habits, the open-source iOS app offers all the benefits Kirshner described at absolutely no cost to the user.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2026

Even if the big guy is actually a five-foot-three, flamboyantly dressed land developer with stupendously gelled hair.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

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