| development | act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining, he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency, they funded research and development |
| product development | improving an existing product or developing new kinds of products |
| child abuse | the physical or emotional or sexual mistreatment of children |
| child neglect | failure of caretakers to provide adequate emotional and physical care for a child |
| play child's play | activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules, Freud believed in the utility of play to a small child |
| child's game | a game enjoyed by children |
cinch breeze
picnic
snap duck soup
child's play
pushover
walkover
piece of cake | any undertaking that is easy to do, marketing this product will be no picnic |
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the position of the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was created in |
child pornography
kiddie porn
kiddy porn | the illegal use of children in pornographic pictures or films |
exploitation
development | the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful, the development of Alaskan resources, the exploitation of copper deposits |
| land development | making an area of land more useful |
water development
water project
water program | making an area of water more useful |
childcare
child care | a service involving care for other people's children |
| child's room | a bedroom for a child |
| ribbon development | building complex in a continuous row along a road |
| child's body | the body of a human child |
developmental psychology
genetic psychology
child psychology | the branch of psychology that studies the social and mental development of children |
| development | (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated |
| development | a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation, recent developments in Iraq, what a revolting development! |
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Housing and Urban Development
HUD | the United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal, created in |
| Social Development Commission | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with social development |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
World Bank
IBRD | a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments |
International Development Association
IDA | an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank |
Advanced Research and Development Activity
ARDA | an agency of the Intelligence Community that conducts advanced research and development related to information technology |
child welfare agency
child welfare service | an administrative unit responsible for social work concerned with the welfare and vocational training of children |
| development | a district that has been developed to serve some purpose, such land is practical for small park developments |
| housing development | a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management, they live in the new housing development |
bastard by-blow
love child
illegitimate child
illegitimate
whoreson | the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents |
c child
kid
youngster
minor
shaver
nipper
small fry tiddler
tike tyke fry
nestling | a young person of either sex, she writes books for children, they're just kids, `tiddler' is a British term for youngster |
| child kid | a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age, they had three children, they were able to send their kids to college |
| child baby | an immature childish person, he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived, stop being a baby! |
| child | a member of a clan or tribe, the children of Israel |
child prodigy
infant prodigy
wonder child | a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age, Mozart was a child prodigy |
female child
girl little girl | a youthful female person, the baby was a girl, the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle |
fosterhild
foster child
fosterling | a child who is raised by foster parents |
hippie
hippy
hipster
flower child | someone who rejects the established culture, advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle |
| latchkey child | a school-age child who is home without adult supervision for part of the day (especially after school until a parent returns home from work) |
male child
boy | a youthful male person, the baby was a boy, she made the boy brush his teeth every night, most soldiers are only boys in uniform |
pederast
paederast
child molester | a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner |
| poster child | a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes, she was the poster child for muscular dystrophy |
schoolchild
school-age child
pupil | a young person attending school (up through senior high school) |
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was Robert C. Weaver who was appointed by Johnson |
waif
street child | a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned, street children beg or steal in order to survive |
| child support | court-ordered support paid by one spouse to the other who has custody of the children after the parents are separated |
development
developing | processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible, the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours |
| development evolution | a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage), the development of his ideas took many years, the evolution of Greek civilization, the slow development of her skill as a writer |
growth
growing
maturation
development ontogeny
ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically, a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level, he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children |
| psychomotor development | progressive acquisition of skills involving both mental and motor activities |
| psychosexual development | (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage |
| development | a state in which things are improving, the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess), after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter, in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen |