developer: Meaning and Definition of

de•vel•op•er

1. a person or thing that develops.
2. a reducing agent or solution for developing a film or the like.
3. a person who invests in and develops the urban or suburban potentialities of real estate, esp. by subdividing the land into home sites and then building houses and selling them.
4. a person who lays out at full size the lines of a vessel and prepares templates from them.