Usually means: Progressive enhancement of societal conditions.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. development: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. development: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. development: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. development: Collins English Dictionary
  5. development: Vocabulary.com
  6. Development, development: Wordnik
  7. development: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. development: Wiktionary
  9. development: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. development: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. development: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. development: Dictionary.com
  13. development: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Development (album), Development (biology), Development (differential geometry), Development (disambiguation), Development (journal), Development (music), Development (topology), Development, The Development: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Development: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. development: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. development: Rhymezone
  18. development: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. development: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. development: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. Development: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. development: Free Dictionary
  23. development: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. development: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. development: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. development: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. development: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Encyclopedia of Television (No longer online)
  4. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. DEVELOPMENT: Accounting Glossary
  2. development: Glossary of research economics
  3. Development: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  4. Development: Energy Dictionary
  5. Development (disambiguation), development: Legal dictionary
  6. Development (disambiguation), development: Financial dictionary
  7. Development (accounting), Development (economics): Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. development: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Development: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. Development: Game Dictionary
  4. Development (biology), Development (disambiguation), development: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Development: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)
  4. Development: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Development (biology), Development (disambiguation), development: Medical dictionary
  8. Development: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Development: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. development: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. development: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Development: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Development: Bicycle Glossary
  3. Development: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. development: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See developmenting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
noun:  (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
noun:  (countable) Something which has developed.
noun:  (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
noun:  (real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
noun:  (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
noun:  (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
noun:  (music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
noun:  (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
noun:  (mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.
noun:  (photography) The processing of photographic film so as to bring out the images latent in it.

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