a person or thing that develops or innovates: a software developer.
Photography. a reducing agent or solution for developing a film or the like.
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.
Shipbuilding. a person who lays out at full size the lines of a vessel and prepares templates from them.
Origin of developer
First recorded in 1825–35; develop + -er1
Words nearby developer
de Vega, devein, devel., develop, developable surface, developer, developing, developing agent, developing country, developing nation, developing-out paper
Facebook today warned its Facebook Audience Network publishers and developers that their revenue is likely to decrease as a result of the privacy changes Apple is making in its iOS 14 update, expected to land mid-September.
Facebook says Apple’s forthcoming privacy moves will throttle publisher revenue on its Audience Network|Lara O'Reilly|August 26, 2020|Digiday
After zoning dictates what can legally be built, developers need to determine what can be built while turning a profit.
Single-Family Zoning’s Century of Supremacy in San Diego|Andrew Keatts|August 26, 2020|Voice of San Diego
That bill would take San Diego’s so-called density bonus law – which lets developers build more housing on a given property if they agree to provide some low-income housing in exchange – and extend it to the rest of the state.
Sacramento Report: San Diego Bills Survive Bad Day for Housing Proposals|Andrew Keatts and Sara Libby|August 21, 2020|Voice of San Diego
In its debut week, we already witnessed a developer build a search engine on top of GPT-3.
What the commoditization of search engine technology with GPT-3 means for Google and SEO|Manick Bhan|August 21, 2020|Search Engine Watch
The two groups hoping to be the developers in charge of overhauling the Sports Arena land in the Midway District sat for interviews with Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s selection committee this week.
Politics Report: Who Will Get the Midway Rose?|Scott Lewis and Andrew Keatts|August 15, 2020|Voice of San Diego
What he found was “a post on a Chinese Android developer forum discussing roughly the same code that is used in the malware.”
A Double Agent App Targets Hong Kong’s Protesters|Jacob Siegel|October 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“It is based on avoiding killing civilians,” Roman Shapiro, the developer said in an email exchange.
‘Bomb Gaza’ Game Maker: ‘F**k Them All’|Gideon Resnick|August 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At least one developer of a Gaza-related game on Google Play has political intentions behind his work.
‘Bomb Gaza’ Game Maker: ‘F**k Them All’|Gideon Resnick|August 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Lobb jumped at the chance and got the greenlight to find a developer to work on it.
Video Games Go Wild for Reboots|Alec Kubas-Meyer|July 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A lawyer for the developer said that he was “very optimistic” his side would prevail.
Why Is Walmart Paying Chris Christie's Pals?|David Freedlander|February 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He placed the plate in the tray and turned the developer on it.
Justin Wingate, Ranchman|John H. Whitson
You will not mind my fixing a ‘developer’ here, Miss Chubb—a few small screws?
Max Carrados|Ernest Bramah
Phenol, better known as carbolic acid, finds a use as a developer.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics|Franklin Beech
But put in the developer by crossing with a pure coloured form and their variety of constitution can then at last become manifest.
Mendelism|Reginald Crundall Punnett
As compared with the paper, developer is cheap, and it is poor economy to save on the latter.
Bromide Printing and Enlarging|John A. Tennant
British Dictionary definitions for developer
developer
/ (dɪˈvɛləpə) /
noun
a person or thing that develops something, esp a person who develops property
photoga solution of a chemical reducing agent that converts the latent image recorded in the emulsion of a film or paper into a visible image