developedde‧vel‧oped /dɪˈveləpt/ ●●○ adjective 
energy consumption in the developed worlddeveloped countries/nations The charity works with children in less developed countries.2a 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.
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- Birthrates in developed countries are generally very low.
- This disease has mostly been eliminated, at least in the developed nations.
- In these respects they differ markedly from the other two parties and have a much stronger and more developed concept of citizenship.
- Profound technological developments have already critically restructured the economies of developed societies from the production of things to the production of knowledge.
- The complexity of rural development everywhere, whether in the developed or the developing world, is not always realised.
- The lack of developed commercial institutions at this time meant that businesses such as barging were inevitably family-based.
- The reduction of mortality from both stroke and ischaemic heart disease are characteristic of much of the developed world.
- This is particularly the case in less developed countries and in the rural or other underserved areas of more developed countries.
- Thus the management of forests on a global basis constitutes an agent of environmental change in both the developed and developing world.
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advanced countries use advanced industrial methods, equipment etc, and have a modern economic and political system: · Many of the nations of southeast Asia will one day be as advanced as Japan or South Korea.· Social problems such as teen pregnancy, drug abuse, and high divorce rates are often common in the most advanced countries.
a developed country has modern industrial, health, and education systems -- use this when comparing these countries with poorer countries: · Birthrates in developed countries are generally very low.· This disease has mostly been eliminated, at least in the developed nations.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY energy consumption in the developed world Dogs have a highly developed sense of smell. plants with well-developed root systems Labour has a more fully developed programme for the unemployed.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
energy consumption in the developed world Dogs have a highly developed sense of smell. plants with well-developed root systems Labour has a more fully developed programme for the unemployed. (=rich and where most people have a comfortable life)· Developed countries are responsible for most emissions of carbon dioxide.
(=modern, with many different types of industry)· the economically developed countries of Western Europe
(=one that has many industries)· In the developed nations, many students go on to university.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Most may have been there in the pre-Norman period, although whether as fully developed villages or not will be discussed below.· Our aim must be to turn out a fully developed person to the limits of his or her personality.· Most important, in these heads and figures the Cubist concept of form is expressed in a fully developed way.· Even for the socialists the road to proletarian triumph ran through a fully developed capitalism.· Other writers are less hesitant about attempting to describe what a fully developed professional is like.· The source of objective legal rules thus appears to be the fully developed rationality of the intellectual elites of different nations.· At their most fully developed business information systems provide a formidable challenge to the creativity of archivists and historians alike.· Labour has a more fully developed programme for the long-term unemployed, including three days work a week and two days training.
· In cathedrals, as so much else, Cottle has a highly developed taste for the unusual and the unappreciated.· They have a highly developed sense of curiosity.· The managed mixed economy and a highly developed system of collective social provision were the means for achieving these values.· Each has his own highly developed notion of a free trading market of closely associating nation states.· Interviewers first decided whether a situation was eligible for inclusion by using a set of highly developed criteria provided for them.· These companies pay lip-service to management development, fashioning their big progressive mouths with a cosmetic of highly developed lipstick techniques.· He might be young but he still had a highly developed sense of humour.· They have a highly developed sense of national identity but almost no sense of responsibility towards the state they live in.
· Processes such as population growth, educational expansion, political change and so on, are examined with reference to developed and less developed countries.
· In these respects they differ markedly from the other two parties and have a much stronger and more developed concept of citizenship.· Several apparently larger and more developed buildings lie at the ends of short side-lanes behind the main frontages.· This approach is influenced by a more developed analysis of bureaucracy associated with public choice theory.
· This has produced one of the most developed coastlines in Britain.· The most developed of these, Meade's scheme for varying social insurance contributions, was given special prominence.
· Here, then, at the opening of the modern era, we have a quite well developed doctrine of popular sovereignty.· Perhaps most important is the well developed nature of the domestic bank bill markets.· Evidence on the value of screening has been obtained mostly from countries with well developed health care systems.· Another interesting feature about these new thelodonts is that there is evidence that a well developed stomach was present.· The radial shields are short and bar-like and carry a single row or well developed spinelets along their length.· It is one of comparison between the northern, highly industrialised countries and the southern, less well developed economies.
NOUN· There are two recently developed areas which are perfect for lesser mortals.
· In most developed countries, cooking would account for less than 5 percent of national energy consumption.· Life expectation at birth is about 45 years in developing countries and more than 70 years in developed countries.· Most of the Western world's best sites have now been developed but potential still exists in less developed countries.· In many developed countries, politicians have at last realised the promise offered by the magnificent achievements of computer hardware engineers.· United Nations target for developed countries.· In a developed country that system is generally dependable.· Consequently, the widescale sanatorium service was doomed, an enormously cost effective benefit for both developing and developed countries.· Between 1880 and 1890, for example, almost 1,000 electrical apparatus companies were founded in developed countries.
· The complexities of a modern developed economy, however, make barter totally impractical for most purposes.· People in even the simplest forms of developed economy required goods and services which they could not provide for themselves.· It is one of comparison between the northern, highly industrialised countries and the southern, less well developed economies.
· The judgement of the dead gradually came under the authority of Osiris, reaching its developed form by the New Kingdom.· Here we have, in fact, a developed form of the variable analysis discussed in the last chapter.
· The developed nations have been lavish with advice.· But what of the claimed benefits for the health of developed nations?· The G77 group of developing nations called for a commitment from all developed nations to meet this target by the year 2000.
· They have a highly developed sense of curiosity.· Field independence also relates to one's sense of separate identity, or developed sense of one's own feelings and needs.· He might be young but he still had a highly developed sense of humour.· They have a highly developed sense of national identity but almost no sense of responsibility towards the state they live in.· Fishes, however, do have a highly developed sense of smell, as do many marine invertebrates.
· If this is the case, can it be substantiated by evidence from the history of developed societies?· Profound technological developments have already critically restructured the economies of developed societies from the production of things to the production of knowledge.· For it so happens that the developed societies over-value certain kinds of mental operations, like logic.
· In the developed world, on the other hand, over-consumption was now a serious threat to health.· The first is that there is in the developed world a new culture of environmental awareness.· They produced a declaration calling for financial and technological assistance from the developed world in return for taking steps to preserve their forests.· Because borrowing has become easier, and because confidence has been high, personal savings have been falling around the developed world.· In relation to forestry in the developed world there are a number of dichotomies.· In the developed world we need to crack down hard on workplaces that break health and safety regulations.· The reduction of mortality from both stroke and ischaemic heart disease are characteristic of much of the developed world.
WORD FAMILYnoundeveloperdevelopmentredevelopmentadjectivedeveloped ≠ undevelopeddevelopingverbdevelopredevelop
1a developed country is one of the rich countries of the world with many industries, comfortable living for most people, and usually an elected government: energy consumption in the developed worlddeveloped countries/nations The charity works with children in less developed countries.2a 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.