development

development
I (building) noun commercial building, construction, creation of housing project, development of industrial sites, erection, house-building program, housing, industrial area, industrial building, institution of commercial sites, residential building, urbanization II (outgrowth) noun accomplishment, achievement, aftergrowth, aftermath, attainment, byproduct, conclusion, consequence, consequent, derivation, effect, emanation, ending, ensual, event, eventuality, eventuation, occurrence, offshoot, outcome, product, realization, result, resultant, sequel, side issue, upshot III (progression) noun accretion, accumulation, advance, advancement, amelioration, ampliation, amplification, anabasis, auctus, betterment, change, cultivation, effectuation, elaboration, enhancement, enrichment, evolution, evolvement, expansion, explicatio, extension, furtherance, gain, germination, gradual evolution, growth, improvement, increase in size, lengthening, melioration, modernization, progress, progress to maturity, progressive growth, progressus, promotion, refinement, reform, reformation, regeneration, remodeling, renovation, reorganization, revision, stimulation, strengthening, supplementation, transfiguration, transformation, unfolding, unravelment, upgrowth, uptrend associated concepts: development costs IV index accession (enlargement), advancement (improvement), augmentation, boom (increase), boom (prosperity), building (business of assembling), complication, consequence (conclusion), creation, denouement, discipline (training), effect, event, growth (evolution), happening, headway, manufacture, nascency, offshoot, outcome, outgrowth, preparation, progress, reform, rehabilitation, result, transition

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