Someone who contracts for and supervises the construction of a building

Usage examples of developer.

Jackson spent much of the war in and around the Blue Ridge Mountains, camping in and marching through the very woods and high gaps through which Katz and I had lately passed, so I was interested to see the scene of his greatest triumph, though really I was curious to learn if the developer had done anything up there worth getting indignant about.

Houses were built close together so that the developers could get the most out of every piece of forest land they had snapped up, and barbecues and kaffeeklatsches were popular social events.

Advertisers use VALS all the time, but shopping center developers can also use such psychographic tools to choose which department stores should anchor a mall, and which specialty shops can complement the anchors.

Big developers out of Nevada and New Jersey docked riverboats in Tunica and wiped out any chance that a small, independent operation like the Crescent might still exist.

The laboratory assistant drew several brushes, all wired together in a holder and each dipped in a different developer, diagonally across the suspected documents.

Many of the programmers and developers who had invented the Macintosh model in the early 1980s had also taken their leave of the company.

But the developers of certain tools once used by the hacking community, which are now being freely distributed or sold as security-related software, are nonetheless treated as malicious code.

To me in my present mood, all they represented was the greed of the developers who were overbuilding and ruining my city.

This implied that projects with many developers should be expected to collapse under the weight of unplanned and unintended interactions.

David the developer and Abraham a clear thinker with a cautious mind, his steady right arm.

Rock stars, ball players, developers, stock traders and arbitragers and your celebrity general who gets five million to write a book written by somebody else yes and who else?

Enron effectively paid the power-plant developers a percentage of their deals, based on estimates of the money they would bring in.

Could it be, Martin wondered, that developers put together deals that could be financed rather than projects that could work?

Is it more than coincidental that Stepford has become an enclave of computer experts, microcircuitry designers, systems engineers, optical sensor developers .

The same observations were true of Samoa, where plantation development was in its very beginnings, and where the principal developer, Godeffroys, was in the market for labourers.