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producer

[ pruh-doo-ser, -dyoo- ]

noun

  1. a person who produces.
  2. Economics. a person who creates economic value, or produces goods and services.
  3. a person responsible for the financial and administrative aspects of a stage, film, television, or radio production; the person who exercises general supervision of a production and is responsible chiefly for raising money, hiring technicians and artists, etc., required to stage a play, make a motion picture, or the like. Compare director ( def 3 ).
  4. British Theater. (formerly) a director of theatrical productions; stage director.
  5. an apparatus for making producer gas.
  6. Ecology. an organism, as a plant, that is able to produce its own food from inorganic substances.


producer

/ əˈːə /

noun

  1. a person or thing that produces
  2. a person responsible for the artistic direction of a play, including interpretation of the script, preparation of the actors, and overall design
  3. a person who organizes the stage production of a play, including the finance, management, etc
  4. the person who takes overall administrative responsibility for a film or television programme Compare director
  5. the person who supervises the arrangement, recording, and mixing of a record
  6. economics a person or business enterprise that generates goods or services for sale Compare consumer
  7. chem an apparatus or plant for making producer gas
  8. often plural ecology an organism, esp a green plant, that builds up its own tissues from simple inorganic compounds See also consumer decomposer
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

producer

  1. An autotrophic organism that serves as a source of food for other organisms in a food chain. Producers include green plants, which produce food through photosynthesis, and certain bacteria that are capable of converting inorganic substances into food through chemosynthesis.
  2. Compare consumer
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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of producer1

First recorded in 1505–15; produce + -er 1
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This week, the program lost its executive producer, Bill Owens, only the third person to hold the job in the show’s storied history.

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Ossai, a music producer, took Lucy to a small flat in the Nigerian capital Lagos where he looked after her for the next nine months.

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Brazil is the world's biggest producer of coffee, followed by Vietnam, Indonesia and Colombia.

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Last month, Malawi blocked imports of flour, rice, ginger, bananas and maize from Tanzania, and other countries, saying this was to protect local producers.

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Evans said it was "incredible" when Hardy came on board in the lead role and as a producer.

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