developer

noun

USdi-VEL-uh-pur/dɪˈvɛləpɚ/UKdi-VEL-uh-puh/dɪˈvɛləpə(ɹ)/

6 meanings of developer

1
nouncountable
A person or company that makes new computer programs or changes existing ones.
My sister works as a developer for a company that makes phone apps.
The developers of the game fixed the bug within a week.
Similarprogrammer, coder
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2
nouncountable
A person or company that gets land ready to sell or puts up buildings on it.
A developer wants to build new homes on the old farm.
The city sold the land to a developer, who split it into lots for sale.
Similarbuilder
3
nouncountable
A person or company that makes or improves a certain kind of product.
The company is a developer of toys for young children.
Developers of new medicines must test them carefully.
Similardesigner
4
nouncountable or uncountable
A liquid with chemicals that is used to make photos from film the old way.
She poured the developer into a tray in the darkroom.
We ran out of developer before all the rolls of film were done.
5
nouncountable
A person who makes photos from film negatives by using chemicals.
The developer at the photo shop had my pictures ready the next day.
My grandfather worked as a developer in a camera store for twenty years.
6
nouncountable
A chemical that makes a color form in cloth threads by reacting with something already on them.
The cloth turned dark blue when the worker dipped it into the developer.
This developer reacts with the chemical already on the threads to make the color.
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It is made from the word develop plus -er.