Dictionary Check: development
"development" is a valid word!
Scrabble
19
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Words with Friends
24
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Definition
noun
act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
Example:
"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)
Example:
"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
Example:
"he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
noun
a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
Example:
"recent developments in Iraq"
noun
the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
Example:
"the development of Alaskan resources"
noun
a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
Example:
"such land is practical for small park developments"
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