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developer

[ dih-vel-uh-per ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that develops or innovates:

    a software developer.

  2. Photography. a reducing agent or solution for developing 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

/ ɪˈɛəə /

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
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of developer1

First recorded in 1825–35; develop + -er 1
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And because most market-rate housing developments now include some income-restricted affordable apartments provided by developers in exchange for increased project size, Los Angeles is getting fewer of those, too.

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For some time developers have got round that by monetising transactions in games and relying more on cheaper digital downloads.

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“Its initial dip in revenue owes more to developers and the real estate lobby hoping to overturn it in court or at the ballot box — and losing.”

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Not every motel is a strong candidate for a nonlodging afterlife, as developers elsewhere have learned the hard way.

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Under the two proposals that collapsed, the city negotiated only with the Angels rather than put the property up for bid and see what developers might offer, with or without a stadium included.

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