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Definition of "developed" []

  • Advanced in industrial capability, technological sophistication, and economic productivity: traveled through the least developed areas of the world. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "developed" in a sentence
  • "The threshold amount is based on a definition developed by the Social Security Administration in 1964 and revised in 1969 and 1981 by interagency committees."
  • "The term developed to mean the DEVIL or personalized force of EVIL who entices mankind away from the service and love of GOD."
  • "The term developed from the original meaning which referred literally to going to a market to buy or sell goods or services."