Developer

/dɪvˈɛləpɐ/

/dɪˈvɛɫəpɝ/

[noun]

Developer

[NOUN]

a person or company that prepares a piece of land for residential or commercial use

a chemical solution used in traditional film photography to convert the latent image on a photographic film or paper into a visible image by reducing the silver halide crystals in the emulsion to metallic silver

someone or something that designs and produces applications, video games, etc.

Examples

1. Developers want to build on the site of the old gasworks.

2. Developers want to run a road right through his farm.

3. Developers should stop half-arsing things and make good games!

4. Property developers have been smacking their lips at the thoughts of getting their hands on such prime real estate.