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

Etymology

Origin of producer

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

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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producer producers

“It feels like the Los Angeles crew is a lot more concerned about our safety,” says the onetime “Girls” producer, lightheartedly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Last month, Five Point Infrastructure agreed to sell another gas supplier, Twin Eagle Holdings, to producer Expand Energy for $1.25 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

In a statement Monday to The Times, “Heroes” creator and executive producer Tim Kring said Panettiere was an “extraordinary talent.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

A producer from New York and agents from London were supposed to come so it's not just the loss now, it's future opportunities as well.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

“My uncle works as a producer at WGMZ. I pitched your story to him and he’s interested.”

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

As the children grew up, their parents also became their mentors, managers and producers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

The flows from the strait remain curtailed, but the region’s producers have managed to find workarounds beyond the chokepoint to keep their crude moving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

He is in no doubt that AI will bring savings for oil-and-gas producers, but isn’t certain what the upshot will be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Streaming giant Spotify said Tuesday it would launch a new "AI Persona" badge in mid-September clearly identifying content producers that are AI-generated and not real people.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

As the producers intended, I think people sat just about limp when the program went off.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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