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 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
Etymology
Origin of developer
Example Sentences
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L.A.’s Latino vote helped her leap from 2.5 percentage points behind the billionaire developer to an insurmountable double-digit lead.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
These days, being a limelight-seeking senator, swing-state governor, or New York City real estate developer who used to host a reality TV show can do the trick.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
OpenClaw, built by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger, is an example of how this is playing out.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
The software developer from Woolwich Township, N.J., also owns a Hyundai Ioniq 5, which is fully electric.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Its developer was Ernest Lawrence, who had shared his boyhood fascination with electric gadgetry with Merle Tuve, his schoolmate and friend from across the street in a compact South Dakota town named Canton.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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