primary producer

American  

noun

Biology.

1. any green plant or any of various microorganisms that can convert light energy or chemical energy into organic matter.

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Other Word Forms

• primary production noun

Etymology

Origin of primary producer

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

Pete Docter, who directed the film, and Dana Murray, the film’s primary producer, who are both white, gave live acceptance speeches from a woodsy-looking home in the Bay Area.

From New York Times

But their countersuit, filed in Federal District Court in Los Angeles, has far more detail, including excerpts from what it says are Justin Raisen’s text exchanges with Lizzo and with her primary producer, Ricky Reed.

From New York Times

As Vox's Emily Todd VanDerWerff explained, the Academy considers an individual to be a primary producer of a project if they were involved in production work.

From Salon

The song’s official credits list four writers: Lizzo, whose real name is Melissa Jefferson; Ricky Reed, her primary producer; Tele, another producer; and Jesse Saint John.

From New York Times

Yet she and her primary producer, Jack Antonoff, are also looking back at Laurel Canyon’s folk-rock fantasy of domestic bliss as a way to deepen Del Rey’s own songs about reaching for, and occasionally attaining, the kind of romantic intimacy that’s eluded her in the past.

From Los Angeles Times