ADJ
- full
- School should encourage the full development of a student's talents
- gradual
- rapid
- sustainable
- healthy
- commercial, economic, industrial
- evolutionary, historical
- regional
- rural, suburban, urban
- human
- educational, emotional, intellectual, linguistic, personal, physical, psychological, sexual, social, spiritual
- software
- child
- property
VERB + DEVELOPMENT
- aid, allow, assist, encourage, enhance, facilitate, favour, foster, permit, promote, stimulate, support
- Education stimulates the stage in the development of Anglo-Irish relations
- a stage of development
- This is a perfectly normal stage of development
ADJ
- exciting, important, major, radical, remarkable, significant, striking
- the latest, new, recent
- logical
- The move from TV to film was a logical development in her career
- unexpected
- welcome
- political, scientific, technical, technological
DEVELOPMENT + VERB
- occur, take place
- the significant developments taking place in the health service
PREP
- ~ in
- new developments in film-making
ADJ
- housing, property
- development of rational thinking. A group of experts has been brought together to support the develop
- business, commercial
- ribbon
- accelerate, speed up
- Ribbon developments (= lines of Environmental factors can buildings) extended along the mai n accelerate the development of road . certain cancers
- arrest, discourage, halt, hinder, inhibit, prevent, restrict, retard, slow
- Too much emphasis on memorizing facts can inhibit the development of creative thinking
- finance
- The company went deep into debt to finance the development of the engine
- monitor, oversee
- A UN team is monitoring the development of the peace process
- trace
- In the opening chapter, the author traces the development of judo from its ancient roots
DEVELOPMENT + NOUN
- initiative, plan, programme, project, scheme
- aid, assistance
- work
- The invention requires more development work to make it viable
- process
- the lengthy development process of a new model of car
- budget, capital, fund, grant
- costs, expenditure
PREP
- during ~
- Cell divisions during development occur in a fixed sequence
- in ~
- A more powerful version of this electric bus in currently in development
- under ~
- The new vaccine is still under development
PHRASES
- research and development
- I do quite a lot of research and development work in my job
- a stage in the development of sth
- an important