producer
Pluralproducers
- 1A person who manages the money and people needed to make a film, album, or show.
Like the person who plans a big party: they get the money, hire helpers, and make sure everything happens.
The film's producer hired a new director after the first one quit.
She worked as a music producer for several famous bands.
- 2A person or company that makes goods or provides services.
Like a baker who makes bread for people to buy.
Local producers sell their vegetables at the market every weekend.
A car producer must follow strict safety rules.
Similarmanufacturer, maker, grower, supplier
Oppositeconsumer
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- 3A living thing that makes its own food from simple materials and energy, like sunlight.
Like a cook who makes a meal from raw ingredients instead of buying it ready-made.
Plants are producers because they make food using sunlight.
Every food chain starts with a producer such as grass or algae.
Similarautotroph
Oppositeconsumer
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- 4A police stop for speeding where the driver must bring their license and papers to a station within a few days.
Like getting a slip that tells you to show your papers at the station later.
The officer gave him a producer after clocking him at eighty on the motorway.
She had seven days to sort out her producer at the local station.
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Less common meaning
- 5A furnace that makes burnable gas for use as fuel.
Like a stove that turns coal into gas you can burn somewhere else.
The factory's producer fed gas to the heating furnaces all day.
Workers stoked the producer with coal to keep the gas flowing.
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Origin
This word comes from "produce" plus the ending "-er".