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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The identified developer did not respond to a request for comment about the property or its future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Who knew the proverb holds even when the classroom is a subdivision and the teacher is a real-estate developer?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
A developer bought the former care home last year and plans to turn it into flats, so she will eventually have to leave.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
“The fact that our elections are also nail-biters makes it that much worse,” said Hildebrand, a software developer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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
Base Power is racing to build and install tens of thousands of batteries in residential backyards and become one of the country’s largest developers of battery storage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
On Monday, Chen filed another claim against the developers, The Madison Collection LLC, seeking to oust its property managers and transfer control to Panshi.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
But in most cases, they’re simply not available either because they are not as profitable for developers to construct or are barred by local zoning laws.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
OpenAI admitted last week that its models broke out of their confined environment during testing, connected to the internet, and infiltrated Hugging Face, a site where developers store and share their code.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Since then countless campaigns to save the rainforest have driven home its lesson: development in tropical forests destroys both forests and their developers.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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