PRODUCER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does producer mean? 

• PRODUCER (noun)
  The noun PRODUCER has 3 senses:

1. someone who manufactures something

2. someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work)

3. something that produces

  Familiarity information: PRODUCER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRODUCER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who manufactures something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

manufacturer; producer

Hypernyms ("producer" is a kind of...):

maker; shaper (a person who makes things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "producer"):

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)

sericulturist (a producer of raw silk)

Instance hyponyms:

Cyrus Hall McCormick; Cyrus McCormick; McCormick (United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884))

John Mercer; Mercer (British maker of printed calico cloth who invented mercerizing (1791-1866))

Isaac M. Singer; Isaac Merrit Singer; Singer (United States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875))

Eli Whitney; Whitney (United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825))

Derivation:

produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("producer" is a kind of...):

creator (a person who grows or makes or invents things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "producer"):

film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)

theatrical producer (someone who produces theatrical performances)

Derivation:

produce (bring onto the market or release)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Something that produces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

this microorganism is a producer of disease

Hypernyms ("producer" is a kind of...):

cause (events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something)

Derivation:

produce (bring forth or yield)

 Context examples 

An agent of disease; a disease producer.

(Pathogen, NCI Thesaurus)

But silica is not a major component of AGB star dust, and observations had not made it clear if these stars could be the primary producer of silica dust observed throughout the universe.

(Exploding Stars Make Key Ingredient in Sand, Glass, NASA)

If you are a producer or editor, you will be given an opportunity to share ideas with the creator to shape the show or manuscript you are working on.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In the bone matrix, PC-1 is the major producer of PPi, which in turn has an inhibitory effect on hydroxyapatite deposition.

(Bone Mineralization Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Headey believes that if increasing taxes on unhealthy food products is not having the desired effects, something must be done to discourage consumers from choosing unhealthy food products and producers from producing them.

(High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition, SciDev.Net)

The effort, which was supported by the National Pork Board, arose from a need to provide livestock producers with alternatives to using dietary antibiotics as a growth-promoting agent in swine.

(Antibiotic Alternative Scores Well in Second Round of Swine Trials, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Brazil is the greatest sugarcane producer in the world and the main exporter of ethanol, which also powers 40 per cent of vehicles in the country.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

Diatoms are one of the most abundant, widely distributed primary producers in the ocean.

(Diatom, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

An organization who takes part in the distribution chain for a product, as it is moved from its producer to the ultimate consumer.

(Distributor, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Initial testing was conducted using citrus seedlings. (As Monte pointed out, Brazil is the leading global seedling producer, and these seedlings are grown indoors, in contamination-free environments).

(New Brazilian fertilizer can boost productivity, Agência BRASIL)