From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Economicsdevelopedde‧vel‧oped /dɪˈveləpt/ ●●○ adjective1PEADVANCEDa developed country is one of the rich countries of the world with many industries, comfortable living for most people, and usually an elected government → developing, underdeveloped
energy consumption in the developed worlddeveloped countries/nations
The charity works with children in less developed countries.2DEVELOPa developed sense, system etc, is better, larger, or more advanced than others
Dogs have a highly developed sense of smell.
plants with well-developed root systems
Labour has a more fully developed programme for the unemployed.Examples from the Corpusdeveloped• Thus the management of forests on a globalbasisconstitutes an agent of environmental change in both the developed and developing world.• The lack of developedcommercialinstitutions at this time meant that businesses such as barging were inevitably family-based.• In these respects they differ markedly from the other two parties and have a much stronger and more developedconcept of citizenship.• This is particularly the case in less developed countries and in the rural or other underserved areas of more developed countries.• Birthrates in developed countries are generally very low.• This disease has mostly been eliminated, at least in the developed nations.• The complexity of rural development everywhere, whether in the developed or the developing world, is not always realised.• Profoundtechnological developments have already critically restructured the economies of developedsocieties from the production of things to the production of knowledge.• The reduction of mortality from both stroke and ischaemic heart disease are characteristic of much of the developed world.developed world• Because borrowing has become easier, and because confidence has been high, personalsavings have been falling around the developed world.• Such obliviousness to place exists around the developed world.• All through the developed world-and now in developing countries-obesity is on the rise.• In the new post-cold war global economy, what was the Third World has been energized while the developed world has languished.• In the developed world, on the other hand, over-consumption was now a seriousthreat to health.• But since the spread of the free market to the less developed world, the incentives have run the other way.• In the developed world we need to crack down hard on workplaces that break health and safetyregulations.highly developed• For smaller companies, where financial controls are not highly developed, factoring may prove the answer.• Generalmanagers and top executives must have highly developed personal skills.• They have a highly developed sense of curiosity.• Ida Rebecca had small book learning but highly developedsensitivity, particularly when it came to judgingoutsiders.• They were almost certainly endowed with highly developedsensory and intuitive powers seen only in the few remainingnativetribesalivetoday.• Her strengths are impressive: her competence in the world, her highly developed social skills, her humor, her warmth.• The managedmixed economy and a highly developed system of collective social provision were the means for achieving these values.
