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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
developer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a software developer/engineer/designer
▪ her job as a software developer
property developer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
late
▪ I suppose you could say I was a something of a late developer in two out of three.
▪ Although a late developer, it began to take on the size and conformation of an excellent Clydesdale stallion.
▪ He was bright, but a late developer.
▪ The latest developer claims to have carried out extensive research into the feasibility of providing medical treatment in Darlington.
▪ He was what you'd call a late developer.
local
▪ Down the block the neighborhood dead-ended in abandoned farmland that Mami read in the local paper the developers were negotiating to buy.
▪ While about a dozen local developers also contributed to the effort, most only gave $ 100.
▪ Some local real estate developers think the 200 to 300 homes per year estimate is unrealistic.
private
▪ Disputes between planners and private sector developers have been over matters of detail.
▪ Concern is that a development district would create an independent government that could be controlled solely by a private developer.
▪ The yard has been earmarked for a complete overhaul by private developers.
▪ The projects will be built by two unnamed, private developers based in San Francisco.
▪ The private developers have pursued the investment route with regard to the shopping centre, and to smaller sector shopping centres on particular estates.
▪ Ten percent of the entries were local authority schemes with the remainder divided equally between housing associations and private developers.
▪ Though a crown body, it did not operate as such and thus was subject to the same planning control as private developers.
real
▪ Interbrew had spent most of 1997 negotiating with Toronto real estate developer Murray Frum.
▪ The real customers of the Department of Housing and Urban Development have not been poor urban dwellers, but real estate developers.
▪ Several venture capital funds, former owners and other real estate developers reportedly have shown interest in the landmark.
▪ Republican Senator james Inhofe of Oklahoma, who was a real estate developer.
▪ They were friends of his, real estate developers with no expertise whatsoever in media, much less multimedia.
▪ Some local real estate developers think the 200 to 300 homes per year estimate is unrealistic.
▪ Nevertheless, real estate developers passionately promoted moving to Los Angeles as the secular equivalent of being born again.
▪ The national association of large real estate developers sent its president to assist the process.
■ NOUN
application
▪ More than 70 pen functions are supported allowing application developers to create exciting new pen applications.
▪ Something was needed to solve all the interface, translation, transformation, and interpretation problems that were driving application developers crazy.
▪ It comes with three support options: for application developers, end-users and system administrators.
▪ Nor should application developers have to code into their applications the exact locations of resources over the network.
▪ This is a new way of working, and means there's a step learning curve to be negotiated for application developers.
estate
▪ Interbrew had spent most of 1997 negotiating with Toronto real estate developer Murray Frum.
▪ The real customers of the Department of Housing and Urban Development have not been poor urban dwellers, but real estate developers.
▪ Several venture capital funds, former owners and other real estate developers reportedly have shown interest in the landmark.
▪ Republican Senator james Inhofe of Oklahoma, who was a real estate developer.
▪ They were friends of his, real estate developers with no expertise whatsoever in media, much less multimedia.
▪ Some local real estate developers think the 200 to 300 homes per year estimate is unrealistic.
▪ Nevertheless, real estate developers passionately promoted moving to Los Angeles as the secular equivalent of being born again.
▪ The national association of large real estate developers sent its president to assist the process.
kit
▪ Poem Videobox is a software developers kit that enables programmers to incorporate the company's decompression techniques into their own products.
▪ Access for Windows developers kits are scheduled for release the first quarter of 1993.
▪ NetLS software developer kit are due in the third quarter.
▪ Independent software vendors who have developer kits say knowing Windows programming makes migration relatively straight forward.
property
▪ STOKESLEY-based property developer and builder, Avon, is to build a £4m industrial park at South Bank, Middlesbrough.
▪ Bock, a one-time property developer, himself owns 19 percent of the company.
▪ The deal means property developer Legacy will turn the Dome into a hi-tech business park.
▪ A PROPERTY developer has claimed congested roads in Middlesbrough are hampering the letting of his scheme in the town's Enterprise Zone.
▪ Charles Keating, once a successful Phoenix property developer, has become the bankrupt symbol of the multi-billion dollar savings-and-loan debacle.
▪ One of those killed was a suspect turned witness in the April 1989 murder of a prominent property developer.
▪ Yet doubts remain about its heavy lending to property developers and over-borrowed companies.
▪ Lanier, 66, was a wealthy white property developer who had never before run for public office.
software
▪ Poem Videobox is a software developers kit that enables programmers to incorporate the company's decompression techniques into their own products.
▪ Altogether, the company hopes to reach 750, 000 software developers.
▪ NetLS software developer kit are due in the third quarter.
▪ But Microsoft was not just any software developer.
▪ The group also plans to launch an independent software developers programme in 1993.
▪ The problem confronting software developers remains the high cost of creating and competitively marketing these products.
▪ Sun's hope of attracting software developers is pinned on its Teleservices Programming Interface.
▪ Some Mac users have expressed concern about whether software developers will continue to produce Mac titles.
system
▪ Intel says the compiler enables systems developers to take advantage of superscalar characteristics like scheduling multiple instructions per clock cycle.
▪ Some system developers and their software programmers assume that consumers are itching to be converted from passive to interactive television watchers.
▪ But many system developers are unable to assess requirements properly.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Solbourne's product allows developers to create graphical user interfaces that dynamically switch between Motif and Open Look.
▪ The two claim it will allow developers to reverse- and forward-engineer C code without having to manually update information in each environment.
▪ Netbuilder will, according to the company, allow developers to build information analysis systems using multiple neural network and statistical analysis modules.
▪ A user interface reportedly allows a developer to intervene at any stage in the translation.
build
▪ Retirement homes built by private developers are proliferating.
enable
▪ Intel says the compiler enables systems developers to take advantage of superscalar characteristics like scheduling multiple instructions per clock cycle.
house
▪ With no incentive to build new rental housing, developers have plowed money into high-income condominiums.
provide
▪ His solutions attempted to provide more speed for developers, more participation for the public and better quality development and conservation.
▪ They will also supply a panel to each school; paint is being provided by Prudential, developers of the project.
▪ The £2.1 million community facilities are to be provided by site developers Countryside Properties.
▪ It also aims to provide developers with the ability to produce Web pages that can operate through multiple access devices.
sell
▪ The cottages were sold to a developer who renovated them, but did not include the frontages.
▪ Supervisor Robert Witmer said he was pleased to hear that the property was sold to a residential developer.
▪ They expect to sell to a developer and move into a modern bungalow on 13 acres less than a mile away.
write
▪ So software developers will hesitate to write for it.
▪ Independent developers had written dozens of word processors, and even programs for obscure functions like cattle management and tarot card reading.
▪ It was his job to convince software developers to write programs for Macintosh.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
late developer/bloomer
▪ Although a late developer, it began to take on the size and conformation of an excellent Clydesdale stallion.
▪ He was bright, but a late developer.
▪ He was what you'd call a late developer.
▪ I suppose you could say I was a something of a late developer in two out of three.
▪ The latest developer claims to have carried out extensive research into the feasibility of providing medical treatment in Darlington.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The company was an early developer of computer-controlled robots.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A 63-year-old property developer who does not want to be named, he is one of the wealthiest men on the island.
▪ A deed of transfer was executed on 18 October, whereby the developers transferred the land in question to the Prudential.
▪ At the same time, Microsoft can get feedback quickly from the developers.
▪ Great economic sacrifices have been made by developers, loggers and fishermen to protect endangered species.
▪ In about 60 days the Port will invite developers to make proposals for this landmark structure. 7.
▪ Management developers will need to help managers to work comfortably within a clash of values.
▪ What's in it for the developer?
▪ When Cybersuds began in mid-1994, it attracted a couple of dozen developers, most of whom knew each other.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Developer

Developer \De*vel"op*er\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, develops.

  2. (Photog.) A chemical bath or reagent used in developing photographs.

    Note: By the action of the developer, the latent image on a photographic plate or film, not perceptible to the eye after exposure in the camera, is developed and becomes visible.

  3. (Dyeing) A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its action upon some substance on the fiber.

  4. a corporation or individual who finances or organizes a real estate development[5].

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
developer

1833, "one who develops," agent noun from develop. Photography use attested from 1869; meaning "speculative builder" is from 1938.

Wiktionary
developer

n. 1 A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products. 2 A real estate developer; a person or company who prepares a parcel of land for sale, or creates structures on that land.

WordNet
developer
  1. n. someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use)

  2. photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film

Wikipedia
Developer

Developer may refer to:

  • Software developer, one who programs computers or designs the system to match the requirements of a systems analyst
  • Web developer, a programmer who specializes in, or is specifically engaged in, the development of World Wide Web applications
  • Video game developer, a person or business involved in video game development, the process of designing and creating games
  • In real estate development, one who builds on land or alters the use of an existing building for some new purpose
  • Photographic developer, a chemical, often a mixture of metol and hydroquinone, which converts the latent silver halide image in the exposed photograph material into reduced, opaque, black silver metal
  • Developer (album), the fifth album by indie rock band Silkworm
Developer (album)

Developer is the fifth full-length album released by indie rock band Silkworm. It was their second and final album released on Matador Records before they moved to Touch and Go.

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.