producer

[pruh-doo-ser, -dyoo-] /prəˈdu sər, -ˈdyu-/
noun
1.
a person who produces.
2.
Economics. a person who creates economic value, or produces goods and services.
3.
a person responsible for the financial and administrative aspects of a stage, film, television, or radio production; the person who exercises general supervision of a production and is responsible chiefly for raising money, hiring technicians and artists, etc., required to stage a play, make a motion picture, or the like.
Compare director (def 3).
4.
British Theater. (formerly) a director of theatrical productions; stage director.
5.
an apparatus for making producer gas.
6.
Ecology. an organism, as a plant, that is able to produce its own food from inorganic substances.
Origin
1505-15; produce + -er1
Related forms
nonproducer, noun
Examples from the web for producer
  • Literature differs from the other arts in the relation in which the producer stands to the consumer.
  • The country has almost half of the world's bauxite reserves and is the second-largest bauxite producer.
  • Steadily, however, producer and dramatist have worked together to make the stage as illusive as possible.
  • The producer price and consumer price releases showed similar trends.
  • She has also worked as a writer and producer on a number of television and video projects.
  • Modern nuclear power is by far the lowest producer of greenhouse gases per watt.
  • Especially if every food producer would retrofit their gas tanks to run on restaurant grease.
  • The only strategy that works is to be the low cost producer of the commodity.
  • To the power producer, the savings end up being less fuel consumed to supply the same demand for power.
  • The subsidies should be paid to the installing party and not the producer.
British Dictionary definitions for producer

producer

/prəˈdjuːsə/
noun
1.
a person or thing that produces
2.
(Brit) a person responsible for the artistic direction of a play, including interpretation of the script, preparation of the actors, and overall design
3.
(US & Canadian) a person who organizes the stage production of a play, including the finance, management, etc
4.
the person who takes overall administrative responsibility for a film or television programme Compare director (sense 4)
5.
the person who supervises the arrangement, recording, and mixing of a record
6.
(economics) a person or business enterprise that generates goods or services for sale Compare consumer (sense 1)
7.
(chem) an apparatus or plant for making producer gas
8.
(often pl) (ecology) an organism, esp a green plant, that builds up its own tissues from simple inorganic compounds See also consumer (sense 3), decomposer
Word Origin and History for producer
n.

1510s, "one who produces;" agent noun from produce (v.). Of entertainments, from 1891; in political economy, opposed to consumer, from 1784 (Adam Smith).

producer in Medicine

producer pro·duc·er (prə-dōō'sər, -dyōō'-, prō-)
n.
A photosynthetic green plant or chemosynthetic bacterium, constituting the first trophic level in a food chain; an autotrophic organism.

producer in Science
producer
  (prə-d'sər)   
An autotrophic 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.