producer
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).
British Theater. (formerly) a director of theatrical productions; stage director.
an apparatus for making producer gas.
Ecology. an organism, as a plant, that is able to produce its own food from inorganic substances.
Origin of producer
1Other words from producer
- non·pro·duc·er, noun
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How to use producer in a sentence
The great crime of the ages is the robbing of the producer of the basic necessities of human life by the non-producer.
Communism and Christianism | William Montgomery BrownFor almost every producer in Victoria there is a non-producer in the capital.
Recollections | David Christie MurrayThe non-producer will live, whatever becomes of those who toil.
Broken Bread | Thomas ChampnessIt is true that the bed, the room, and the house is a home of idleness for the non-producer.
The Conquest of Bread | Peter Kropotkin
British Dictionary definitions for producer
/ (prəˈdjuːsə) /
a person or thing that produces
British a person responsible for the artistic direction of a play, including interpretation of the script, preparation of the actors, and overall design
US and Canadian a person who organizes the stage production of a play, including the finance, management, etc
the person who takes overall administrative responsibility for a film or television programme: Compare director (def. 4)
the person who supervises the arrangement, recording, and mixing of a record
economics a person or business enterprise that generates goods or services for sale: Compare consumer (def. 1)
chem an apparatus or plant for making producer gas
(often plural) ecology an organism, esp a green plant, that builds up its own tissues from simple inorganic compounds: See also consumer (def. 3), decomposer
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Scientific definitions for producer
[ prə-dōō′sər ]
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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