Associations to the word «Development»
Noun
- Entrepreneurship
- Condominium
- Empowerment
- Urbanization
- Infrastructure
- Industrialization
- Embryo
- Workforce
- Consultancy
- Sustainability
- Nepal
- Ide
- Cooperation
- Retail
- Housing
- Economic
- Developer
- Planning
- Panchayat
- Modernization
- Vaccine
- Dissemination
- Stakeholder
- Software
- Initiative
- Redevelopment
- Industrial
- Implementation
- Tourism
- Biotechnology
- Social
- Growth
- Imf
- Financing
- Unicef
- Devel
- Competency
- Globalization
- Adolescence
- Validation
- Fertilization
- Innovation
- Research
- Parenting
- Impetus
- Methodology
- Aquaculture
- Differentiation
- Nanotechnology
- Utilization
- Sanitation
- Puberty
- Framework
- Corporation
- Nations
- Investment
- Governance
- Technology
- Curriculum
- Integration
- Millennium
- Procurement
- Resource
- Programme
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
DEVELOPMENT, noun. (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
DEVELOPMENT, noun. (uncountable) (biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
DEVELOPMENT, noun. (countable) Something which has developed.
DEVELOPMENT, noun. (real estate) (countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings, real estate development.
DEVELOPMENT, noun. (real estate) (uncountable) The building of a real estate development.
DEVELOPMENT, noun. (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
DEVELOPMENT, noun. (chess) (uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
DEVELOPMENT, noun. (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form.
Dictionary definition
DEVELOPMENT, noun. Act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining; "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development".
DEVELOPMENT, noun. A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage); "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer".
DEVELOPMENT, noun. (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children".
DEVELOPMENT, noun. A recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!".
DEVELOPMENT, noun. The act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful; "the development of Alaskan resources"; "the exploitation of copper deposits".
DEVELOPMENT, noun. A district that has been developed to serve some purpose; "such land is practical for small park developments".
DEVELOPMENT, noun. A state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess); "after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter"; "in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen".
DEVELOPMENT, noun. Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours".
DEVELOPMENT, noun. (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.