development
the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
a significant consequence or event: recent developments in the field of science.
a developed or advanced state or form: Drama reached its highest development in the plays of Shakespeare.
Music. the part of a movement or composition in which a theme or themes are developed, or unfolded and elaborated, by various technical means, so as to reveal their inherent possibilities.
a large group of private houses or of apartment houses, often of similar design, constructed as a unified community, especially by a real-estate developer or government organization.
Chess. the act or process of developing chess pieces.
Mining. the work of digging openings, as tunnels, raises, and winzes, to give access to new workings, and of erecting necessary structures.
Origin of development
1Other words for development
1 | expansion, elaboration, growth, evolution; unfolding, opening, maturing, maturation |
3 | maturity, ripeness |
5 | community, subdivision |
Opposites for development
Other words from development
- de·vel·op·men·tal, de·vel·op·men·ta·ry, adjective
- de·vel·op·men·tal·ly, adverb
- an·ti·de·vel·op·ment, adjective
- hy·per·de·vel·op·ment, noun
- hy·per·de·vel·op·men·tal, adjective
- non·de·vel·op·ment, noun
- non·de·vel·op·men·tal, adjective
- non·de·vel·op·men·tal·ly, adverb
- post·de·vel·op·men·tal, adjective
- pre·de·vel·op·ment, noun
- self-de·vel·op·ment, noun
- sub·de·vel·op·ment, noun
- su·per·de·vel·op·ment, noun
- un·de·vel·op·ment, noun
- un·de·vel·op·men·tal, adjective
- un·de·vel·op·men·tal·ly, adverb
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How to use development in a sentence
This week, I want to talk about an example of what those developments make possible.
The money is meant to speed production and cut financial risk for the most promising of the dozens of inoculations in development.
U.S. will conduct an unofficial dry run of a COVID-19 vaccine campaign this fall | Claire Zillman, reporter | August 19, 2020 | FortuneWe need as many vaccine candidates in development as we can muster.
Here’s what we know about Russia’s unverified coronavirus vaccine | Tina Hesman Saey | August 11, 2020 | Science NewsThough a Covid-19 vaccine trial is going on in South Africa there is no primary vaccine development currently in Africa.
Most of Africa will not have access to Covid-19 vaccines for up to a year after approval | Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu | August 6, 2020 | QuartzIn addition to Kotch, Knewz currently has two full-time editors, one full-time staffer working on marketing and audience development and another dedicated project manager.
Six months in, News Corp’s ‘Knewz’ aggregator has big ambitions | Lara O'Reilly | July 16, 2020 | Digiday
But by and large I go over the same things for every developmental stage.
Kids Eat the Darndest Things: Laundry Pods, Teething Necklaces, and More Of The Weirdest Stuff Sending Kids to the E.R. | Russell Saunders | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJean Piaget, the most famous developmental psychologist of the 20th Century, highlights this in a classic study.
Why Are Millennials Unfriending Organized Religion? | Vlad Chituc | November 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat kind of employers hire people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)?
Hiring People With Disabilities Isn’t Just the Right Thing to Do—It’s Good for Business | Elizabeth Picciuto | October 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEssentially he is arguing that there are functional trade-offs in developmental biology.
By the standards of Syndrome Z, her developmental progress is remarkable.
Common illustrations of such deforming developmental accidents are harelip, cleft palate, and club foot.
The Mother and Her Child | William S. SadlerEver must we keep in mind that these little ones are just children—children that are still in the developmental stage.
The Mother and Her Child | William S. SadlerNow, the forms of totemic exogamy unmistakably constitute a developmental series.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm WundtIn so far, the hypothesis represents a transition to developmental theories proper.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm WundtDuring the time the muscle-plates have been undergoing these changes the nerve masses have also undergone developmental changes.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 | Francis Maitland Balfour
British Dictionary definitions for development
/ (dɪˈvɛləpmənt) /
the act or process of growing, progressing, or developing
the product or result of developing
a fact, event, or happening, esp one that changes a situation
an area or tract of land that has been developed
Also called: development section the section of a movement, usually in sonata form, in which the basic musical themes are developed
chess
the process of developing pieces
the manner in which they are developed
the position of the pieces in the early part of a game with reference to their attacking potential or defensive efficiency
Derived forms of development
- developmental, adjective
- developmentally, adverb
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