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pro·duc·er

[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.
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6.
Ecology. an organism, as a plant, that is able to produce its own food from inorganic substances.
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Origin:
1505–15; produce + -er1

non·pro·duc·er, noun
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Producers is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
Example Sentences
  • Conditions in the metal markets continue to improve and producers are feeling more confident as to the future.
  • There may, however, be a reckoning on the horizon for the producers of certain kinds of college degrees.
  • New-world producers are keener on technology, innovation and consumer research.
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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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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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