producer

American  

[pruh-doo-ser, -dyoo-] / prəˈdu sər, -ˈdju- /

noun

• producers
  plural

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.

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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producer British  

/ prəˈdjuːsə /

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

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producer Scientific  

/ prə-do̅o̅′sər /

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

Derived Forms

• nonproducer
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• producers
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of producer

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

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Explanation

If you have the chance to travel to Brazil, you might get to visit the largest producer of coffee beans in the world. A producer is a maker or manufacturer of something. Since the 1500s, the word producer has been used to mean "one who produces." In the late 1800s it began to have a second meaning, "someone who finances and supervises a show". A movie producer oversees the making of films in various ways, including raising money, and a record producer does a similar job in the music industry, working with musicians. This kind of producer is more of a supervisor and adviser than the actual maker of the finished product.

Example Sentences

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He also ruled out doing a TV series, despite serving as an executive producer on the long-running "Fargo" television adaptation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

A separate measure of producer prices released Thursday was also strong.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

That’s why diesel shows up in producer prices before consumer prices, Carpenter said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Judd Apatow, who helped get the show green lit with HBO, will also return as executive producer.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

But like their producer said, they deal in news, not rumors.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Company results should provide evidence of how effectively producers have used alternative routes despite logistical constraints, according to the ratings firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The first minister welcomed Burnham's recent announcement that he wanted to secure better trade terms with the EU for producers of salmon, shellfish, and seed potatoes.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Gulf oil producers like Saudi Arabia are struggling, because they can’t physically get their exports to would-be buyers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

As the song played, people from neighboring studios, including hip-hop producers and other musicians, began wandering in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Why did people of the Fertile Crescent wait until 8500 B.C., instead of becoming food producers around 18,500 or 28,500 B.C.?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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