[pruh-doo-ser, -dyoo-] 
| 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. |
| pro·duc·er (prə-dōō'sər, -dyōō'-, prō-) n.
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producer pro·duc·er (prə-d&oomacr;'sər, -dy&oomacr;'-, prō-)
n.
A photosynthetic green plant or chemosynthetic bacterium, constituting the first trophic level in a food chain; an autotrophic organism.
producer (prə-d 'sər) Pronunciation Key
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. |
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