developernoun
uk/dɪˈvel.ə.pər/us/dɪˈvel.ə.pɚ/developer noun (BUILDER)
C2 [ C ] a person or company that makes money from buying land, building new houses, offices, etc., or by changing existing buildings to sell or rent:
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- Much of the region's native vegetation has been damaged by developers who are building hotels along the coast.
- Some of the younger property developers are real wide boys.
- The developers refurbished the house inside and out.
- The project suddenly got a new lease of life when the developers agreed to provide some more funding.
- The developers dealt with the problem in the time-honoured fashion, burying the industrial waste in landfill sites.
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Buildng: construction work & workers
- brick
- brick up sth
- bricklayer
- brickwork
- bridge
- builder
- develop
- go up
- improver
- jerry-built
- joinery
- knock
- roof
- roofer
- roofing
- rouseabout
- scaffolding
- self-build
- slate
- thatch
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developer noun (OF PRODUCT)
C1 [ C ] a person or company that creates new products, especially computer products such as software:
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Creating and producing
- bear fruit idiom
- bring
- bring sth out
- churn sth out
- cobble
- craft
- on the go idiom
- overproduce
- patch
- patch sth together
- phase
- phase sth in
- pump
- raise
- rush
- turn sth out
- uncreative
- unleash
- unproductive
- wrought
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developer noun (CHEMICAL)
[ C or U ] a chemical used for developing photographs or films
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Photography
- airbrush
- aperture
- camera
- camera obscura
- camera-shy
- capture
- hologram
- holography
- kinetoscope
- lo-res
- low-resolution
- negative
- selfie
- sharp
- shoot
- shutter
- slide
- SLR camera
- snapshot
- superimpose
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developer noun (PERSON)
[ C ] someone, especially a child, whose physical or mental development can be described in a particular way:
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Making progress and advancing
- a step forward idiom
- advance
- advancement
- ahead
- be cooking idiom
- betterment
- develop
- graduate
- grow
- grow into sb/sth
- grow out of sth
- have come a long way idiom
- headway
- rise
- shape
- speciation
- spread your wings idiom
- steer a course/path idiom
- step
- streak ahead
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