Dictionary Definition
producer
Noun
1 someone who manufactures something [syn:
manufacturer]
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; "Maine is a leading
producer of potatoes"; "this microorganism is a producer of
disease"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- An individual or organization that creates goods or services.
- One who produces an artistic production like a CD, a theater production, a film, a TV program and so on.
- In the context of "biology": An organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple molecules and an external source of energy.
Derived terms
Translations
in economics
- Czech: výrobce
- Dutch: producent, vervaardiger (rare)
- Finnish: tuottaja
- German: Hersteller
- Italian: produttore
- Japanese: 生産者 (せいさんしゃ, seisansha), 製作者 (せいさくしゃ, seisakusha)
- Spanish: productor
in arts
in biology
- Finnish: tuottaja
Extensive Definition
Producer may refer to an occupation:
- Executive producer, supervises one or more producers
- Film
producer, oversees the making of films
- Line producer, manages the budget and/or day to day running of a film production
- Game producer, produces computer and console games
- Impresario, a producer or manager in the theater and music industries
- Radio producer, oversees the making of a radio show
- Record producer, or musical event producer, in the music industry
- Television producer, oversees the making of television programs
- Theatrical producer, oversees the staging of theatre productions
- Web
producer, oversees the management of web sites
- Online producer, oversees the making of content for websites
Producer may also refer to:
- Autotroph, an organism that synthesizes energy-rich organic compounds
- "The Producer", an episode of Gilligan's Island
- In economics, an individual or organization that creates goods or services (see Production, costs, and pricing)
See also
- Production (disambiguation page)
- The Producers (disambiguation page)
Headline text
producer in Czech: Producent
producer in Danish: Producer
producer in German: Produzent
producer in French: Producteur
producer in Italian: Produttore
producer in Luxembourgish: Produzent
producer in Lithuanian: Prodiuseris
producer in Albanian: Producenti
(kthjellim)
producer in Slovenian: Producent
producer in Serbian: Продуцент
producer in Finnish: Tuottaja
producer in Swedish: Producent
producer in Turkish: Yapımcı
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
MC,
actor, administrator, agent, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, auteur, author, ballyhoo man, barker, begetter, beginner, builder, callboy, catalyst, causer, conceiver, conductor, constructor, costume
designer, costumer,
costumier, craftsman, creator, deputy, designer, deviser, directeur, director, discoverer, doer, effector, emcee, engenderer, engineer, equestrian director,
executant, executor, executrix, exhibitor, fabricator, farmer, father, founder, generator, governor, grower, impresario, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, inspirer, instigator, institutor, intendant, introducer, inventor, journeyman, maker, makeup man, manager, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, master
of ceremonies, medium,
mother, mover, operant, operative, operator, organizer, originator, parent, past master, performer, perpetrator, planner, playreader, practitioner, precursor, prime mover, primum
mobile, processor,
prompter, raiser, realizer, rector, responsible person,
ringmaster, scenewright, set designer,
shaper, showman, sire, smith, spieler, stage director, stage
manager, subject,
supercargo, theater
man, theatrician,
ticket collector, usher,
usherer, usherette, worker, wright