Synonyms:
manufacturer, producer
Meaning: someone who manufactures something
Synonyms:
producer
Meaning: someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work)
Synonyms:
producer
Meaning: something that produces; "Maine is a leading producer of potatoes"; "this microorganism is a producer of disease"
Usage examples
God is the producer of immortality; and whoever has doubts of immortality is written down as an atheist without farther trial.
As Nannar, which Jastrow considers to be a variation of "Narnar", the "light producer", the moon god scattered darkness and reduced the terrors of night.
The laborer in the cities, the producer on the farm, the merchant, the professional man and all save organized capital and its satellites, saw a gloomy and hopeless future.
And a well-known American painter was talking to me of a midnight scolding Charlie Chaplin gave to some Los Angeles producer, in a little restaurant, preaching the really beautiful film, and denouncing commerce like a member of Coxey's illustrious army.
A wider meaning recently given to the word by many economists turns on the supposed relation of some portions of price to cost of production. Thus, frequent use is made of the expressions: consumer's rent, producer's rent, buyer's rent, seller's rent, etc.