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dev

1

[ dev ]

noun

  1. a software developer:

    a game dev;

    a web dev.



adjective

  1. software development:

    The programmers and animators on the dev team worked late into the night.

dev.

2

abbreviation for

  1. development.
  2. deviation.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dev1

By shortening
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Example Sentences

So what do I, a relative outsider to the indie game dev community, have to add to this fraught conversation?

Dev is Indian, so they (obviously) go to an Indian restaurant.

Dev Patel loitered around another corridor, waiting for his plugged-in phone to charge.

Yet, let me tell you, sir, it is not every dev—I mean it is not every gentleman who knows how to choose a philosopher.

But an evil demon (Dev) was sent to them by Ahriman, the representative of everything noxious and sinful.

Yas, suh, dat's my Jim; I don't know whaih he gits his dev'ment at.

Dev— … deuce take me,4 if I did not make the mistake myself; and what is your name?

Well, there we sit and write in our dream books, and Uncle Roger passes by and accuses us of being up to dev—to very bad mischief.

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