The word 'dev' is correct and usable in written English as it is a commonly used abbreviation for the word "development".
It is typically used in technical or business contexts, such as in computer programming or project development. Example: "Our dev team has been working on a new feature for the website."
"When I was applying for a business development role for Kiip, I pitched a few companies on forming partnerships with them, and introduced them to the biz dev team.
The pink room, in particular, had raised a few eyebrows among the academicians, admitted the head of the Summer Exhibition, Edith Dev an e y, but they had all been delighted with the end result, she added.
Emperor Jahangir had Arjan Dev, the fifth Sikh guru, tortured and put to death for consorting with his rebellious son.
He, Dev and Mr Yadav may discover that public opinion is shifting faster than they had realised.(Picture credit: AFP).
A new report by Dev Kar of Global Financial Integrity, a watchdog in Washington, DC, finds that tax evasion is rife, and that Indians with illicit cash tend to stash it abroad.
This is an achievement, you might assume, that would have brought untold fame and fortune to the robots' mild-mannered young creator, Deon (Dev Patel), but instead he labours in a drab shared office, with only one square-metre of partitioned table to himself.
5 Sony DEV-3 £1,449, sony.co.uk Sony's binoculars have an inbuilt digital video camera, which records what you see, and an auto-focusing HD x10 zoom.
These directors were happy to take on realistic themes, such as caste, morality and the place of women in a fast-changing world, and they were lucky to draw on the acting talents of Dev Anand and Dilip Kumar, not to mention the singing voice of Lata Mangeshkar, who went on to become the world's most prolific recording artist.
For "Tumsa Nahin Dekha" (a lucky break in several ways, for the established star Dev Anand was meant to play the lead, but had walked out), he was offered 20,000 rupees and complained it was too little; at which the producer slapped him for a fool.
Kapur returned to India and joined the film industry as an actor, making his debut in Ishq ishq ishq (1974; "Love, love, love"), directed by his uncle Dev Anand.
January 22 , 1934Gurdaspur, India February 23 , 2004Mumbai, India Vijay Anand ("Goldie"), (born Jan . 22 1934, Gurdaspur, Punjab, India died Feb. 23, 2004, Mumbai [Bombay], India) Indian film director, writer, and actor who, was the visionary director of some of Bollywood's most respected movies and the younger brother of the legendary actor Dev Anand.
