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Meaning of developer in English

developer
noun
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/dɪˈvel.ə.pər/ us
/dɪˈvel.ə.pɚ/

developer noun (BUILDER)

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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:
property developer The land has been sold to a wealthy property developer.
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Building: construction work & workers
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developer noun (OF PRODUCT)

C1 [ C ]
a person or company that creates new products, especially computer products such as software:
software developer The company is a leading software developer.
product developer
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Creating and producing
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developer noun (CHEMICAL)

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a chemical used for developing photographs or films
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Photography
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developer noun (PERSON)

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someone, especially a child, whose physical or mental development can be described in a particular way:
late/slow developer Tom was a late/slow developer.
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Making progress and advancing
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(Definition of developer from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

developer | American Dictionary

developer
noun [ C ]
us
/dɪˈvel·ə·pər/
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a person or company that makes money by buying land and building new houses, stores, or offices on it:
real estate developers
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developer | Business English

developer
noun [ C ]
uk
/dɪˈveləpər/ us
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PROPERTY
a person or company that makes money by buying land and building new houses, stores, or offices on it:
The bill would prevent a developer from building thousands of homes near the canyon.
He is one of the developers of the new golf resort.
a property/real estate/housing developer
PRODUCTION, IT
a person or company that creates new products, especially software, or services:
Now the country is producing some of the best designers of wireless chips and developers of wireless software.
a software/drug/game developer

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merchant developer
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Examples of developer

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Procedures are specified beforehand by developers to save time during critical situations.
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Until now, the consolidating options have failed because of cost and lack of cooperation between biological database developers.
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The above development techniques were introduced as a starting point for developers.
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Further, we encountered constantly diverging opinions regarding the costs and ease of maintenance from various developers and users of meta-knowledge.
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Vendor-supplied defaults for access policy could help ensure that deployments are consistent with what is checked by developers.
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The last two points, however, present formidable methodological challenges to method developers.
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Finally, there is a lack of experience about the kind of graphic user interfaces that are needed to interact with developers.
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Multi-agent systems can be used by developers to naturally model and develop software for such applications.
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At this stage debugging requires close cooperation with the component developers.
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In addition, some implications are drawn for researchers and developers of instructional mater ials.
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In order to build an effect-driven test specification, we need a dynamic, evolutionary, critical dialogue amongst a team of test developers.
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Perhaps developers of existing deployed systems just aren't aware of what is possible; they just don't have the right skills in-house.
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The detailed evaluation results may also help the parser/grammar developers to diagnose problems within parsers/grammars.
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While the plans from the competition were offered to builders, often the developers chose their own designs, and used their own architects.
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All grammar developers must be aware of how information is represented at all times.
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estate developer
I code 1 for a candidate if he or she is a celebrity, millionaire, real estate developer, business owner, president or top executive of a company and so on.
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game developer
Video game developer a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games.
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independent developer
Upon release the game received mixed reviews, although it was consistently praised as an ambitious endeavor for an independent developer.
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in Chinese (Traditional)
建立者, 開發商，建築商, （尤指電腦產品，如軟體等的）開發者…
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建立者, 开发商，建筑商, （尤指计算机产品，如软件等的）开发者…
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promotor inmobiliario, promotora inmobiliaria, empresa de promoción inmobiliaria…
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promotor imobiliário, promotora imobiliária, desenvolvedor…
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विकासक…
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inşaat yatırımcısı/şirketi, imar eden, müteahhit/yüklenici…
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promoteur, développeur, développateur…
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projectontwikkelaar, ontwikkelaar, ontwikkelvloeistof…
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நிலம் வாங்குதல், புதிய வீடுகள், அலுவலகங்கள் போன்றவற்றைக் கட்டுவதன் மூலம் அல்லது ஏற்கனவே உள்ள கட்டிடங்களை விற்க அல்லது வாடகைக்கு மாற்றுவதன் மூலம் பணம் சம்பாதிக்கும் ஒரு நபர் அல்லது நிறுவனம்…
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डेवलपर, ज़मीन खरीदने, नए घर…
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વિકાસકર્તા પેઢી કે વ્યક્તિ, કમ્પ્યુટર સોફ્ટવેર બનાવતી પેઢી કે વ્યક્તિ…
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entreprenør, igangsætter, fremkaldervæske…
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fastighetsutvecklare, programutvecklare, framkallningsvätska…
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pemaju, pembangun, pencuci…
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der Bauunternehmer / die Bauunternehmerin, der Entwickler / die Entwicklerin, der Entwickler…
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utvikler…
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ترقی دینے والا, فروغ دینے والا, ترقی دینے ولا…
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забудовник, розробник, проявник…
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భూమి కొనడం, కొత్త ఇళ్ళు, కార్యాలయాలు మొదలైనవి నిర్మించడం లేక ఇప్పటికే ఉన్న భవనాలను విక్రయించడానికి లేక అద్దెకు మార్చడం ద్వారా డబ్బు సంపాదించే వ్యక్తి లేక సంస్థ…
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জমি, বাড়ি, অফিসের কেনাবেচা বা নির্মাণের কারবারী…
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developer, vývojář, vývojka…
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pengembang, developer, zat pengembang…
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นักพัฒนาที่ดิน, ผู้พัฒนา, น้ำยาล้างฟิล์ม…
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chủ xây dựng công trình, nhà phát triển, thuốc tráng phim…
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inwestor, deweloper, developer…
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