developer

[dih-vel-uh-per] /dɪˈvɛl ə pər/
noun
1.
a person or thing that develops.
2.
Photography. a reducing agent or solution for 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.
Origin
1825-35; develop + -er1
Examples from the web for developer
  • And behind the developer comes the family in search of a home in the suburbs.
  • The developer only got it from people who stole it from natives, who never owned it in the first place.
  • He picked it up cheaply when another developer went bankrupt after putting a handful of houses on it.
  • Conveniently, they knew a real-estate developer who was willing to help them negotiate with the landlord to break their lease.
  • Dave had been hearing talk on the street of a developer snatching up property in the neighborhood.
  • Miller is a real-estate developer and former builder, so his conservatism is leavened with actual experience.
  • The first is a developer-sponsored, but informative, account of the neighborhood from the point of view of residents.
  • And those developer-managers would make those units available at a variety of price points.
  • When people give the developer feedback on bugs, then the developer can work them out for the point release.
  • The developer of the device in the winning entry says it was used without permission.
British Dictionary definitions for developer

developer

/dɪˈvɛləpə/
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
Word Origin and History for developer
n.

1833, "one who develops," agent noun from develop. Photography use attested from 1869; meaning "speculative builder" is from 1938.

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