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development
/dɪˈvɛləpmənt/ · 11 letters · 9 distinct letters
- noun
act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency
- 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
- 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
- noun
a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
recent developments in Iraq
- noun
the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
the development of Alaskan resources