developer

CEFRB1

/dɪˈvɛləpə(ɹ)/

noun

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In plain English

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noun
A person or company that creates software, products, or buildings.
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noun
Extra detail
A film developer; a person who uses chemicals to create photographs from photograph negatives.

Examples

This new project in Java doesn't concern me at all, because I'm a PHP developer.
You are a mechanical engineer and I am a software developer.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

A real estate developer; a person or company who prepares a parcel of land for sale, or creates structures on that land.
A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products.
A liquid used in the chemical processing of traditional photos.

In context

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Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “After Fukushima, Japan beginning to see the light in solar energy”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30
[Donald Trump] would repeat this point three more times over the course of several hours, as if pleading with his counterparties to see fiscal reason. (Religious fanatics, alas, do not always respond to the same incentives as New York developers.)
2026 April 23, Jonathan Chait, “The Posting Will Continue Until Morale Improves”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC

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