development
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
development/dɪˈveləpmənt/
▶noun
- 1 the process of developing or being developed.
■ a specified state of growth or advancement.
- 2 a new product or idea.
- 3 an event constituting a new stage in a changing situation.
- 4 an area of land with new buildings on it: a major housing development.
– derivatives
developmental adjective,
developmentally adverb.
developmental adjective,
developmentally adverb.
'development' also found in these Oxford entries:
abortion
- abortive
- abstract expressionism
- advance
- advancement
- adverse
- anal
- angiogenesis
- aplastic anaemia
- apoptosis
- apotheosis
- arc
- arms race
- art history
- backwater
- Baha'i
- basipetal
- behind
- beta test
- blastula
- bleeding edge
- breakthrough
- breeding ground
- brownfield
- build
- Calvinism
- case study
- CDC
- centriole
- child
- civilization
- civilize
- continuity
- continuous
- cosmology
- coupler
- course
- cramp
- cross-fertilize
- culminate
- determinant
- DFID
- diapause
- differentiate
- dramedy
- dynamics
- EBRD
- eclampsia
- ectogenesis
