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producer
[ pruh-doo-ser, -dyoo- ]
/ prəˈdu sər, -ˈdyu- /
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noun
a person who produces.
Economics. a person who creates economic value, or produces goods and services.
a person responsible for the financial and administrative aspects of a stage, film, television, or radioproduction; 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.
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British Dictionary definitions for producer
producer
/ (prəˈdjuːsə) /
noun
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Medical definitions for producer
producer
[ prə-dōō′sər, 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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Scientific definitions for producer
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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