producer

noun

pro·​duc·​er prə-ˈdü-sər 

prō-,

-ˈdyü-

1

: one that produces

especially : one that grows agricultural products or manufactures crude materials into articles of use

2

: a person who supervises or finances a work (such as a staged or recorded performance) for exhibition or dissemination to the public

3

: an autotrophic organism (such as a green plant) viewed as a source of biomass that can be consumed by other organisms compare consumer

Examples of producer in a Sentence

the producer of the play

He is the director and producer.

The country is the world's leading oil producer.

Recent Examples on the Web

The actor has long been drawn, hauntingly, to characters who’ve lost children, from Dead Calm to 2010’s Rabbit Hole (her first credit as a producer with her company, Blossom Films) to Lulu Wang’s recent Amazon series Expats. —Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2024

The intimacy of her work can be attributed at least in part, to Yanya’s profound creative relationship with her collaborator on the album, composer and producer Wilma Archer. —Liam Hess, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2024

Keurig agreed to pay $1.5 million in penalties without admitting guilt or denying the SEC's findings that the K-Cup pod producer made misleading statements about the recyclability of its K-Cup single-use coffee pods. —Brittney Melton, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024

Boar's Head Provisions will no longer make liverwurst and is closing the Virginia facility at the center of a listeria outbreak that killed nine people and hospitalized at least 57 in 18 states, the producer of deli meats announced on Friday. —Kate Gibson, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1513, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing producer

• co-producer
• hyper-producer
• producer gas
• producer goods

Kids Definition

producer

noun

pro·​duc·​er prə-ˈd(y)ü-sər 

1

: one that produces

especially : a person who grows agricultural products or manufactures articles

2

: a person who supervises or finances a play, a movie, or a radio or television program

3

: a living thing (as a green plant) that makes its food from simple inorganic substances (as carbon dioxide and nitrogen) and many of which are food sources for other organisms compare consumer sense 2