development
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
The process of growing, advancing, or elaborate.
polysemousFFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012
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act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
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the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
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(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
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a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
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a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
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processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
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a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage, especially a more advanced or mature stage
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(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically
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a state in which things are improving
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Entity Type
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unclassified
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unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- developingevolutionexploitationgrowing
- alternatephrasing
- Development
- plural
- developments
- possessive
- development's
- pluralpossessive
- developments'