product

Pluralproducts

Formsproducts, producting, producted

1. 1
   goods for salenouncountable or uncountable

   Something that is made or grown and offered for sale, or a service, such as insurance, that a business sells.

   The company's flagship product earns most of its yearly revenue.

   Retailers stock these products on the lowest shelves.

   UsageUsually a product or products. Sales talk also uses it with no article, as in move a lot of product.

   Similargoods, merchandise, wares

2. 2
   end resultnouncountable or uncountable

   Something that is produced by a process, or that results from someone's efforts or from particular circumstances.

   Rich soil is the product of centuries of decaying plant matter.

   This sculpture is the product of months of careful carving.

   UsageUsually the product of something, as in the product of months of work. A person can be a product of their time.

   Similarcreation

   Note

   The broad sense the others branch from, usually built as "the product of" something: in Milton's Paradise Lost (1667), the product of ill-mated marriages; in Burke's Reflections (1790), institutions are the products of enthusiasm. A person can be one too. Calling Newton a product of his time means the age shaped him. Surprisingly, this general use is not the oldest. English first took the word as the multiplication term. Source

   Checked 5 Nov 2026 · 5 facts

   • Paradise Lost was first published in 1667. en.wikipedia.org
   • Milton's Paradise Lost uses product of ill-mated marriages; Michael speaks the words. gutenberg.org
   • Edmund Burke wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France, published in 1790. en.wikipedia.org
   • Burke describes institutions as products of enthusiasm in Reflections. en.wikisource.org
   • The mathematical sense is the earliest attested English sense, preceding the general result sense. en.wiktionary.org
3. 3
   cosmeticnoununcountable

   A preparation applied to the hair, skin, or nails, especially one used to hold hair in a desired arrangement.

   He uses very little product, just enough to keep his curls in place.

   The stylist worked some product through her hair before the shoot.

   UsageUsed without a: some product, too much product. For the items on a shelf, say hair products.

   Note

   You wash excess product out, and in Brandon Taylor's Real Life (2020) a character's hair is greasy with product. Said with no qualifier, it usually means something that holds a style, such as gel, pomade or mousse, rather than a lotion or polish.

4. 4
   reaction resultnouncountable or uncountable

   A substance newly formed when a chemical reaction takes place.

   Carbon dioxide is a common product of combustion.

   Chemists measured how much product the reaction yielded.

   UsageOften a product of a reaction, or with no article for an amount: how much product it yielded.

   Oppositereactant

   Note

   In chemistry, products are what a reaction ends with. They stand on the right-hand side of an equation and build up as the reactants are used up and bonds rearrange.

5. 5
   amount madenouncountable or uncountable

   The total amount of goods, material, or services produced by a person, business, economy, or process.

   When the firm doubled its workforce without buying more machines, its total product rose by only about a third.

   After the region's gross domestic product shrank for two quarters in a row, officials warned that a recession had begun.

   UsageMostly in set terms such as gross domestic product (GDP) and total product.

   Similaroutput, yield, production

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