developer

/dɪˈveləpər/ noun [C]

Definition

› 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

→ See also merchant developer

(Definition of developer noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)