- a person or thing that produces; specif., one who produces goods and services
- a special type of furnace for making producer gas
- a person in charge of the financing and coordination of all activities in connection with the production of a play, film, radio or TV program, etc.
- a person who supervises a recording session and then determines the final sound of the recording mix
The producer is in charge of financing a movie.
- An example of producer is someone who is in charge of the financing of a play or movie.
- An example of producer is a person who manages the business aspects of a television show.
The definition of a producer is someone who creates good and services or is in charge of coordinating all aspects of creating an entertainment performance.
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producer
noun
- One that produces, especially a person or organization that produces goods or services for sale.
- A person who supervises and controls the administrative, financial, and commercial aspects of staging a show or performance or of creating and distributing a video or audio recording.
- A furnace that manufactures producer gas.
- Ecology An organism, such as a green plant, that produces its own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis and constitutes the first trophic level in a food chain; an autotroph.
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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.
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Noun
(plural producers)
- (economics) An individual or organization that creates goods and services.
- One who produces an artistic production like a CD, a theater production, a film, a TV program and so on.
- (biology) An organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple molecules and an external source of energy.
- (UK, slang) An arrest for speeding after which the driver is allowed seven days in which to produce his/her driving licence and related documents at a police station.
- (archaic) A furnace for producing combustible gas for fuel.
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producer - Medical Definition
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Ecology An organism, such as a green plant, that produces its own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis and constitutes the first trophic level in a food chain; an autotroph.
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Sentence Examples
- Of the less important minerals, Canada is the world's chief producer of asbestos and corundum.
- The ores are principally magnetites (New York is the largest producer of magnetite ore among the states, producing about 45% of the total for the United States in 1907 and 1908), but red haematites occur in the N.
- The state of Virginia is the chief producer, followed successively by Georgia, North Carolina, Colorado, Massachusetts, California, Missouri, New York, &c. From Indiana and Ohio a quantity of pyrites is obtained as a by-product in coalmining.
- The quantity produced from 1845 Cop er the year in which the Lake Superior district became a producer, and in which the total product was only 224,000 lbup to 1908 was 13,106,205,634 lb.
- As a producer of iron Russia nevertheless runs France neck and neck for the fourth place amongst the iron-producing countries of the world, her annual output having increased from 1,004,800 metric tons in 1891 to 2,808,000 in 1901 and to 2,900,000 in 1904.
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