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producer

[ pruh-doo-ser, -dyoo- ]

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noun

a person who produces.
Economics. a person who creates economic value, or produces goods and services.
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 ).
British Theater. (formerly) a director of theatrical productions; stage director.
an apparatus for making producer gas.
Ecology. an organism, as a plant, that is able to produce its own food from inorganic substances.

producer

/ prəˈdjuːsə /

a person or thing that produces
a person responsible for the artistic direction of a play, including interpretation of the script, preparation of the actors, and overall design
a person who organizes the stage production of a play, including the finance, management, etc
the person who takes overall administrative responsibility for a film or television programme Compare director
the person who supervises the arrangement, recording, and mixing of a record
economics a person or business enterprise that generates goods or services for sale Compare consumer
chem an apparatus or plant for making producer gas
often plural ecology an organism, esp a green plant, that builds up its own tissues from simple inorganic compounds See also consumer decomposer

producer

/ prə-do̅o̅′sər /

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.
Compare consumer

First recorded in 1505–15; produce + -er ¹

It was a Senate floor soap opera over none other than a soap-opera producer.

As a producer on The Gambler, he read a bunch of women for the female lead, and settled on Larson.

In any case, some enterprising independent producer might have enough material for a reality-show pilot.

Depending on the producer, Champagne can also be highly cloyingly sweet, buttery, or round, or mineral.

It's a lot of pressure on host/producer Sarah Koenig, something she addresses in the beginning of the episode.

Many growers not only pack their own crop, but buy up that of others, thus acting as both producer and buyer.

The "effects" were astonishingly well contrived by both author and producer (Mr. Holman Clark).

Ugly wasn't a roarin' success as a producer—jist idled and fuddled until he got to be a man.

He's a cabinetmaker, Miss Bassett,—a producer of antiques, and a good one; and about the gentlest human being you ever saw.

Like Ptah, Ea also developed from an artisan god into a sublime Creator in the highest sense, not merely as a producer of crops.

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