producer
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sər, -ˈdyu- 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.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing that produces |
| 2. | (Brit) a person responsible for the artistic direction of a play, including interpretation of the script, preparation of the actors, and overall design |
| 3. | (US), (Canadian) a person who organizes the stage production of a play, including the finance, management, etc |
| 4. | Compare director the person who takes overall administrative responsibility for a film or television programme |
| 5. | the person who supervises the arrangement, recording, and mixing of a record |
| 6. | economics Compare consumer a person or business enterprise that generates goods or services for sale |
| 7. | chem an apparatus or plant for making producer gas |
| 8. | (often plural) ecology consumer See also decomposer an organism, esp a green plant, that builds up its own tissues from simple inorganic compounds |
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Word Origin & History
producer
1510s, "one who produces;" agent noun from produce (v.). Of entertainments, from 1891; in political economy, opposed to consumer, from 1784 (Adam Smith).
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Medical Dictionary
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.
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Science Dictionary
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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Example sentences
Or either, it is a producer of itself, its structure and its functioning.
The only strategy that works is to be the low cost producer of the commodity.
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She has also worked as a writer and producer on a number of television and video projects.
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