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pro·duc·er

(prə-do͞o′sər, -dyo͞o′-, prō-)

1. One that produces, especially a person or organization that produces goods or services for sale.

2. 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.

3. A furnace that manufactures producer gas.

4. 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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producer

(prəˈdjuːsə)

1. a person or thing that produces

2. (Theatre) Brit a person responsible for the artistic direction of a play, including interpretation of the script, preparation of the actors, and overall design

3. (Theatre) US and Canadian a person who organizes the stage production of a play, including the finance, management, etc

4. (Broadcasting) the person who takes overall administrative responsibility for a film or television programme. Compare director⁴

5. (Music, other) the person who supervises the arrangement, recording, and mixing of a record

6. (Economics) economics a person or business enterprise that generates goods or services for sale. Compare consumer¹

7. (Chemistry) chem an apparatus or plant for making producer gas

8. (Environmental Science) (often plural) ecology an organism, esp a green plant, that builds up its own tissues from simple inorganic compounds. See also consumer³, decomposer

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pro•duc•er

(prəˈdu sər, -ˈdyu-)

n.

1. a person who produces.

2. Econ. a person who produces goods and services or creates economic value.

3. the person responsible for raising money, hiring personnel, and generally supervising business matters for a stage, film, television, or radio production.

4. an organism, as a plant, that is able to produce its own food from inorganic substances.

[1505–15]

pro·duc·er

(prə-do͞o′sər)

An 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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Noun	1.	producer - someone who manufactures something manufacturer arms manufacturer - someone who manufactures arms and munitions brewer - the owner or manager of a brewery distiller - someone who distills alcoholic liquors food manufacturer - a person who manufactures food products maker, shaper - a person who makes things sericulturist - a producer of raw silk
	2.	producer - someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work) creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things film maker, film producer, filmmaker, movie maker - a producer of motion pictures theatrical producer - someone who produces theatrical performances
	3.	producer - something that produces; "Maine is a leading producer of potatoes"; "this microorganism is a producer of disease" cause - events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something; "they are trying to determine the cause of the crash"

producer

noun

1. director, promoter, impresario, régisseur (French) a freelance film producer

2. maker, manufacturer, builder, creator, fabricator producers of precision instruments and electrical equipment

3. grower, farmer They are producers of high-quality wines.

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producer

noun

A person or business that makes or builds something:

assembler, builder, constructor, erector, maker, manufacturer.

Translations

مُنْتِج

producentvýrobce

producer

Hersteller Produzent Erzeuger

παραγωγός

productor

tuottaja

producteur

režiser

producer

framleiîandi

produttore produttrice fabbricatore

プロデューサー

생산자

producent

pridelovalecproducentproizvajalec

producent

ผู้ผลิต

prodüktör üretici yapımcı

nhà sản xuất

制片人生产者

producer

[prəˈdjuːsəʳ] N

1. [of oil, coal, ore, crop] → productor(a) m/f; [of product] → fabricante mf

2. (Theat) → director(a) m/f de escena (Cine) → productor(a) m/f (TV) → realizador(a) m/f, productor(a) m/f

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producer

[prəˈdjuːsə^r] n

(= artistic director) [show, play] → metteur/euse m/f en scène

[film, programme] → producteur/trice m/f

[product, raw material] → producteur/trice m/f

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producer

n → Produzent(in) m(f); (Ind also) → Hersteller(in) m(f); (Theat) → Regisseur(in) m(f); (Film, TV, Rad) → Produzent(in) m(f); producer goods → Produktionsgüter pl

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

producer

[prəˈdjuːsəʳ] n (Agr, Cine, TV, Theatre) → produttore/trice

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produce

(prəˈdjuːs) verb

1. to bring out. She produced a letter from her pocket.

2. to give birth to. A cow produces one or two calves a year.

3. to cause. His joke produced a shriek of laughter from the children.

4. to make or manufacture. The factory produces furniture.

5. to give or yield. The country produces enough food for the population.

6. to arrange and prepare (a theatre performance, film, television programme etc). The play was produced by Henry Dobson.

(ˈprodjuːs) noun

something that is produced, especially crops, eggs, milk etc from farms. agricultural/farm produce.

proˈducer noun

a person who produces a play, film, etc, but is usually not responsible for instructing the actors.

product (ˈprodəkt) noun

1. a result. The plan was the product of hours of thought.

2. something manufactured. The firm manufactures metal products.

3. the result of multiplying one number by another. The product of 9 and 2 is 18.

proˈduction (-ˈdakʃən) noun

1. the act or process of producing something. car-production; The production of the film cost a million dollars.

2. the amount produced, especially of manufactured goods. The new methods increased production.

3. a particular performance, or set of repeated performances, of a play etc. I prefer this production of `Hamlet' to the one I saw two years ago.

proˈductive (-ˈdaktiv) adjective

(negative unproductive) producing a lot; fruitful. productive land; Our discussion was not very productive.

productivity (prodəkˈtivəti) noun

the rate or efficiency of work especially in industrial production.

producer

→ مُنْتِج producent producer Hersteller παραγωγός productor tuottaja producteur režiser produttore プロデューサー 생산자 producer produsent producent produtor производитель producent ผู้ผลิต üretici nhà sản xuất 生产者

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It must be weighed, the various taxes set apart, and the remainder returned to the producer. But the collector delays this duty day after day, while the producer's family are perishing for bread; at last the poor wretch, who can not but understand the game, says, "Take a quarter--take half--take two-thirds if you will, and let me go!" It is a most outrageous state of things.

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The powers, the culture, of the literary producer: there, is the centre of Amiel's curiosity.

He was [29] meant--we see it in the variety, the high level both of matter and style, the animation, the gravity, of one after another of these thoughts--on religion, on poetry, on politics in the highest sense; on their most abstract principles, and on the authors who have given them a personal colour; on the genius of those authors, as well as on their concrete works; on outlying isolated subjects, such as music, and special musical composers--he was meant, if people ever are meant for special lines of activity, for the best sort of criticism, the imaginative criticism; that criticism which is itself a kind of construction, or creation, as it penetrates, through the given literary or artistic product, into the mental and inner constitution of the producer, shaping his work.

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He had so intently watched this tulip, followed it so eagerly from the drawer in Cornelius's dry-room to the scaffold of the Buytenhof, and from the scaffold to the fortress of Loewestein; he had seen it bud and grow in Rosa's window, and so often warmed the air round it with his breath, that he felt as if no one had a better right to call himself its producer than he had; and any one who would now take the black tulip from him would have appeared to him as a thief.

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I had created a new industry, and had brought a producer and several workers into the town.

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Then had followed the news that the producer of this awful event was a stranger, a mighty magician at Arthur's court; that he could have blown out the sun like a candle, and was just going to do it when his mercy was purchased, and he then dissolved his enchantments, and was now recognized and honored as the man who had by his unaided might saved the globe from destruction and its peoples from extinction.

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Those who live on the frivolities of mankind, or, what is the same thing, their luxuries, have two sets of victims to plunder--the consumer, and the real producer, or the operative.

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A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

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Sapsea's composition, that, in spite of his intention to end his days in Cloisterham, and therefore his probably having in reserve many opportunities of copying it, he would have transcribed it into his pocket-book on the spot, but for the slouching towards them of its material producer and perpetuator, Durdles, whom Mr.

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While the children, scarcely awake, awe-stricken at her manner, their eyes growing larger and larger, remained in this position, she took the baby from her bed--a child's child--so immature as scarce to seem a sufficient personality to endow its producer with the maternal title.

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In other words, a commodity ceases to have pecuniary value the instant that it passes out of the hands of its producer. All excess reverts to government; and, as this represents the production of the people as a government, government may dispose of it to other peoples in ex-change for that which they produce.

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So he disbanded his army and the consumers became producers also.

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