producern.

Brit.

/prəˈdjuːsə/,

/prəˈdʒuːsə/, U.S.

/prəˈd(j)usər/,

/proʊˈd(j)usər/

Forms: see produce v. and -er suffix¹; also Scottish pre-1700 perducer.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: produce v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < produce v. + -er suffix¹.

I. In general use.

1. A person who or thing which produces (in various senses).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > that which produces

gendererc1384

bearera1387

bringerc1386

engendererc1390

producera1513

forthbringer1546

breeder1572

productor1584

productrice1585

spawner16..

brancher1610

procreanta1616

producent1622

productrix1630

generant1635

generator1637

productive1642

procurator1647

pregnatress1651

generatrix1657

yielder1733

productress1751

a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1965) II. 130 For God is the makar and produsar of the creatur.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. vi. 93 The One is the Producer or yeelderfoorth, the Vnderstanding is the thing produced or yeeldedfoorth.

1676 G. Towerson Explic. Decalogue 359 Hatred is not murther..yet it is..at least the producer of it.

1752 J. Gill Doctr. Trinity (ed. 2) vi. 113 The first parent, bringer forth, or producer of every creature.

1779 J. Fell Dæmoniacs iv. 123 The god of flies was, beyond all doubt, thought to be the producer or nourisher of insects.

1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 60 Pearl [wheat].—Very white, compact ear, and great producer.

1881 M. Arnold Byron in Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 368/2 The producer of such poems could not but publish them.

1903 Daily Chron. 15 Apr. 5/2 Mexico, the greatest silver producer in the world.

1955 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 15 Feb. 1/7 De Beers is the world's largest producer of diamonds.

1990 Midwest Living Feb. 94/2 Packman broccoli is a great producer in hot weather.

2001 A. B. Hadjian in B. Gökay Politics of Caspian Oil iv. 114 A gradual rearrangement of the Soviet distribution of labour deprived Azerbaijan of its position as a major oil producer.

II. In specific senses.

2. Political Economy. A person, company, or country that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities for sale. Opposed to consumer. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun]

producer1692

outputter1902

1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 120 Yet whenever want of Money, or want of desire in the consumer, make the Price low, that immediately reaches the first producer.

1784 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations (ed. 3) II. iv. viii. 515 The interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 236 In every prosperous community something more is produced than goes to the immediate support of the producer .

1864 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. I. iii. v. 373 He ceases to be a producer, and becomes simply a channel through which the produce of others is conveyed to the public.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 227 The pigeon is a consumer, not a producer.

1927 Market Res. Agencies Guide to Publ. (U.S. Dept. Commerce) p. iv Market research is the study of all problems relating to the transfer of goods from producer to consumer, involving relationships and adjustments between production and consumption, [etc.].

1999 H. Stretton Economics i. v. 42 People sometimes write as if producers only produce and consumers only consume. Producers and consumers are mostly the same people.

3. A furnace for producing fuel gas by passing a current of air and usually steam through hot solid fuel so that incomplete combustion occurs; = gas producer n. (a) at gas n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for making other articles > [noun] > gas-making equipment

gas producer1841

gasifier1857

Siemens producer1866

producer1890

society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > types of furnace by method of operation

lamp-furnace1651

wind-furnace1651

reverbatory1656

blast furnace1706

revolver1879

run-out1881

flame-furnace1888

producer1890

resistance furnace1897

induction furnace1907

suction plant1909

high-frequency induction furnace1918

solar furnace1924

roller hearth furnace1927

1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 13 Here are the half-dozen producers, to give the gas for the two Siemens's furnaces.

1941 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) V. 368/1 In the Thwaite cupola producer.., where a dry-air blast..is employed, it is usual to add a certain proportion of limestone to the fuel charge.

1961 M. G. Say Electr. Engineer's Ref. Bk. (ed. 10) xxvii. 7 A gas curtain is provided, the gas being usually supplied by a producer.

4. Oil Industry (originally U.S.). A productive oil well, a well that yields oil.

ΚΠ

1881 Democrat (Olean, N.Y.) 19 May 3/7 The Richburg well continues to do about 30 barrels daily, and is generally acknowledged to be a good producer.

1940 Los Angeles Times 12 Oct. (Financial section) 7/5 The company takes about two months to drill a producer from grass-roots.

1962 L. A. Parcher in A. L. Bertrand & F. L. Corty Rural Land Tenure in U.S. x. 165 If the well is a producer, the landowner who has retained part of the oil and gas rights may expect sizable returns from royalties.

1991 Offshore Engineer Sept. 101/1 Yatzy abandoned five subsea producers.

5. A person responsible for the financial and managerial aspects of staging a play, opera, etc., or making a film or broadcast; (also) a person who supervises the making of a musical recording. Cf. produce v. 2d.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > director or producer

play-dresser1602

acting manager1733

metteur en scène1851

producer1891

director1911

actor-producer1961

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming unit or team > [noun] > producer or director

art director1871

producer1891

director1911

production director1915

actor-producer1927

society > communication > broadcasting > putting on or producing broadcast > [noun] > people involved in putting on broadcast

script clerk1867

editor1881

programme builder1898

narrowcaster1930

story editor1930

sponsor1931

programme controller1934

scripter1936

lighting1956

producer1961

outside broadcaster1971

sound1972

programmer1978

1891 C. W. Scott & C. Howard Life E. L. Blanchard I. 213 Though he was a clever actor, he rose to greater fame as what we should now call a stage-manager or producer of plays.

1908 Moving Picture World 7 Nov. 355 The race course did not attract a large representation of moving picture producers.

1925 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 283/2 The great Delando, most resourceful of the Broadway producers, put down the last act of ‘The Republic’.

1938 W. S. Maugham Summing Up 107 I use the American word director rather than the English one, producer, because I think it better describes what should be the function of the person in question.

1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production 190 The producer may be the business-head of the programme, responsible for organization, finance, policy, etc., while his director is concerned with interpretation, staging and directing its production.

1976 M. Maguire Scratchproof iv. 51 Sam Goldwyn used to say that a producer shouldn't get ulcers, he should give them.

1989 A. Stevenson Bitter Fame x. 206 Ted was invited by a BBC producer to come and discuss a series of children's programs.

2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 Feb. a19 Kanye West, the hyper-talented rapper and producer whose album ‘Late Registration’ was nominated for eight Grammys.

6. Ecology. An organism that produces organic compounds from simple substances such as water, carbon dioxide, or nitrogen; an autotroph. Frequently attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > balance of nature > organisms in relation to habitat > [noun]

colonist1839

benthos1891

land form1897

heterotroph1900

autotroph1901

epibenthos1902

specialist1902

microaerophile1903

nitrifier1903

consumer1904

nitrogen fixer1904

producer1904

indicator1906

psychrophile1906

thermophil1909

sulphuretum1925

influent1926

halobiont1928

halophile1928

mesophile1928

oligosaprobe1931

saprobe1932

eurytope1938

stenotope1938

photoautotroph1939

chemoautotroph1943

prototroph1946

mixotrophy1948

chemolithoautotroph1949

auxotroph1950

chemoheterotroph1951

chemoorganotroph1953

chemolithotroph1955

chemotroph1958

osmophile1961

psychrotroph1963

saprotroph1963

generalist1964

opportunist1967

cryophile1970

1904 New Phytologist 3 125 In the ocean..the animals live directly or indirectly on the vegetable substances... It is obvious that the ‘consumers’ could not..be two to four times as great in quantity as the ‘producers’.

1941 Q. Rev. Biol. 16 397/1 Certain important groups of producer plankton..were absent from the neighbourhood of the poles.

1978 Sci. Amer. Mar. 102/2 These rodents derive energy directly from the primary producers (leaves, shoots, seeds and buds), from other consumers (invertebrates..) and from decomposers (fungi).

1991 R. S. K. Barnes & K. H. Mann Fund. Aquatic Ecol. (ed. 2) iii. 58/2 In coastal environments in which the water column is such that the photic zone reaches the bottom, macrophytes (vascular plants and macroalgae) may become the dominant producers.

Compounds

C1. Appositive, with sense ‘that is a producer and—’.

producer-exhibitor n.

ΚΠ

1920 Stage Year Bk. 52 It became increasingly certain, however, that the main body of exhibitors was opposed to the producer-exhibitor.

1949 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 16 May 7/2 The tight producer-exhibitor relationship in America means that a producer must displace one of his own films to show a British film.

1999 Variety (Nexis) 21 June 61 ‘Some 20 to 25 multi-screens, all less than 10 years old, will close by year-end 1999,’ says producer-exhibitor Primitivo Rodriguez.

producer-novelist n.

ΚΠ

1969 Listener 13 Feb. 219/2 The producer-novelist David Thomson gave us a good example in From Oblivion to Obscurity (Third Programme), by another novelist, with previous radio successes, F. C. Ball.

1999 Newsday (Nexis) 17 Sept. b47 Sunday's premiere hour from producer-novelist Barbara Hall..neatly traces the behavioral patterns that ultimately direct our lives.

producer-retailer n.

ΚΠ

1926 J. D. Black Introd. Production Econ. xxiv. 650 The producer-retailer might load his produce in a wagon and peddle it from house to house.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 5 Jan. 87/2 Producer-retailers with over 50 head of poultry will again be required to contribute ¼d per dozen.

1994 Managem. Sci. 40 999/2 A major New York fashion producer-retailer that designs, produces.., and sells fashion apparel through its own line of retail outlets.

C2.

Producer Choice n. British Television (also with lower-case initials) a policy of the BBC, instituted under John Birt (Director-General 1992–2000) in 1993, which gives programme makers control over their budgets, allowing them to purchase services from other departments, or from outside the Corporation.

ΚΠ

1991 Times 30 Oct. 13/1 From April 1993 Television in the BBC will be organised on the basis of a system we are calling Producer Choice... Studios, outside broadcasts, graphics and film departments..will compete for business..from BBC producers.

2000 J. Caughie Television Drama vi. 173 The process within BBC drama before the days of the internal market and producer choice may indeed have been fertile ground for creative freedom, but they may also have lacked the creative discipline which Potter's work needed.

producer goods n. goods used in the manufacture of other goods; opposed to consumer goods.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > [noun] > used to make something else

producer goods1932

1932 G. Frank Thunder & Dawn xii. 382 A too great concentration of wealth means money in the hands of those who will invest it in producer goods. A wide distribution of wealth means money in the hands of those who will invest it in consumer goods.

1951 Manch. Guardian 14 May 4/2 It is, of course, extremely difficult to give a coherent picture when you are showing objects..that include producer goods, consumer goods, and transport.

1993 J. Kay Found. Corporate Success v. xvi. 254 Advertised commodities are generally consumer goods, not producer goods.

producer gas n. gas produced by a producer (sense 3), used as a low-grade but inexpensive fuel and consisting chiefly of nitrogen and carbon monoxide with smaller amounts of hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > gaseous, vaporous, or vaporized

oxyhydrogen1823

acetylene1860

isobutane1876

albo-carbon1878

mixture1878

producer gas1883

astatki1885

hydrazine1887

oxy-gas1900

oxyacetylene1907

suction gas1907

propane gas1930

oxy-propane1963

oxy-fuel1967

syngas1975

autogas1982

1883 Times 12 May 8/6 The heating power of water gas seemed one half, but..for simplicity in using it when made it was far superior to producer gas, and more easily managed.

1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students x. 203 In many cases where producer gas is employed, however, the large amount of heat liberated in the producer represents a serious waste.

2000 New Scientist 19 Aug. 97/1 Producer gas is still used in many industrial furnaces.

producer-oriented adj. directed toward or favouring producers of goods rather than consumers.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > of or relating to specific policies or actions

imperial1726

co-operative1821

protectionist1844

inflationist1876

rational1915

deflationist1921

rationalist1942

producer-oriented1946

redistributionist1949

substantivist1956

supply side1957

demand-pull1958

tax-and-spend1960

stop-and-go1961

stop-go1962

go-stop1964

supply-driven1973

demand-side1975

supply side1976

demand-driven1980

1946 E. S. Mason Controlling World Trade 6 The regulation of international trade by cartels and producer-oriented commodity agreements may be extensive.

1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) ii. xxxi. 333 Nearly all of our technologies since Gutenberg have been..not producer-oriented, but consumer-oriented.

1992 College & Res. Libraries News Feb. 99/2 The processes were defined as diffusion-, mission- or producer-oriented.

C3.

producer-in-chief n. a producer with ultimate responsibility for a process or production.

ΚΠ

1906 Times 1 Feb. 5/5 The Public is the producer in chief of theatrical entertainment that is intended to please the Public.

1918 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 4 June 9/1 His producer in chief, William Fox, has a mind which automatically places each of his stars in a particular groove and keeps them there.

1939 M. Spring Rice Working-class Wives i. 13 Men..are the recognised producers-in-chief.

1976 S. Wales Echo 23 Nov. 6/6 He is also producer-in-chief of a series of plays for Granada which will be shown in Britain.

2004 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 21 Nov. 76 With Steve Lillywhite returning as producer-in-chief, even the quieter songs end up as epics, and you may be left gasping for less.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	producer
释义	producern. Brit. /prəˈdjuːsə/, /prəˈdʒuːsə/, U.S. /prəˈd(j)usər/, /proʊˈd(j)usər/ Forms: see produce v. and -er suffix¹; also Scottish pre-1700 perducer. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: produce v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < produce v. + -er suffix¹. I. In general use. 1. A person who or thing which produces (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > that which produces gendererc1384 bearera1387 bringerc1386 engendererc1390 producera1513 forthbringer1546 breeder1572 productor1584 productrice1585 spawner16.. brancher1610 procreanta1616 producent1622 productrix1630 generant1635 generator1637 productive1642 procurator1647 pregnatress1651 generatrix1657 yielder1733 productress1751 a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1965) II. 130 For God is the makar and produsar of the creatur. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. vi. 93 The One is the Producer or yeelderfoorth, the Vnderstanding is the thing produced or yeeldedfoorth. 1676 G. Towerson Explic. Decalogue 359 Hatred is not murther..yet it is..at least the producer of it. 1752 J. Gill Doctr. Trinity (ed. 2) vi. 113 The first parent, bringer forth, or producer of every creature. 1779 J. Fell Dæmoniacs iv. 123 The god of flies was, beyond all doubt, thought to be the producer or nourisher of insects. 1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 60 Pearl [wheat].—Very white, compact ear, and great producer. 1881 M. Arnold Byron in Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 368/2 The producer of such poems could not but publish them. 1903 Daily Chron. 15 Apr. 5/2 Mexico, the greatest silver producer in the world. 1955 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 15 Feb. 1/7 De Beers is the world's largest producer of diamonds. 1990 Midwest Living Feb. 94/2 Packman broccoli is a great producer in hot weather. 2001 A. B. Hadjian in B. Gökay Politics of Caspian Oil iv. 114 A gradual rearrangement of the Soviet distribution of labour deprived Azerbaijan of its position as a major oil producer. II. In specific senses. 2. Political Economy. A person, company, or country that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities for sale. Opposed to consumer. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] producer1692 outputter1902 1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 120 Yet whenever want of Money, or want of desire in the consumer, make the Price low, that immediately reaches the first producer. 1784 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations (ed. 3) II. iv. viii. 515 The interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 236 In every prosperous community something more is produced than goes to the immediate support of the producer . View more context for this quotation 1864 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. I. iii. v. 373 He ceases to be a producer, and becomes simply a channel through which the produce of others is conveyed to the public. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 227 The pigeon is a consumer, not a producer. 1927 Market Res. Agencies Guide to Publ. (U.S. Dept. Commerce) p. iv Market research is the study of all problems relating to the transfer of goods from producer to consumer, involving relationships and adjustments between production and consumption, [etc.]. 1999 H. Stretton Economics i. v. 42 People sometimes write as if producers only produce and consumers only consume. Producers and consumers are mostly the same people. 3. A furnace for producing fuel gas by passing a current of air and usually steam through hot solid fuel so that incomplete combustion occurs; = gas producer n. (a) at gas n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for making other articles > [noun] > gas-making equipment gas producer1841 gasifier1857 Siemens producer1866 producer1890 society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > types of furnace by method of operation lamp-furnace1651 wind-furnace1651 reverbatory1656 blast furnace1706 revolver1879 run-out1881 flame-furnace1888 producer1890 resistance furnace1897 induction furnace1907 suction plant1909 high-frequency induction furnace1918 solar furnace1924 roller hearth furnace1927 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 13 Here are the half-dozen producers, to give the gas for the two Siemens's furnaces. 1941 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) V. 368/1 In the Thwaite cupola producer.., where a dry-air blast..is employed, it is usual to add a certain proportion of limestone to the fuel charge. 1961 M. G. Say Electr. Engineer's Ref. Bk. (ed. 10) xxvii. 7 A gas curtain is provided, the gas being usually supplied by a producer. 4. Oil Industry (originally U.S.). A productive oil well, a well that yields oil. ΚΠ 1881 Democrat (Olean, N.Y.) 19 May 3/7 The Richburg well continues to do about 30 barrels daily, and is generally acknowledged to be a good producer. 1940 Los Angeles Times 12 Oct. (Financial section) 7/5 The company takes about two months to drill a producer from grass-roots. 1962 L. A. Parcher in A. L. Bertrand & F. L. Corty Rural Land Tenure in U.S. x. 165 If the well is a producer, the landowner who has retained part of the oil and gas rights may expect sizable returns from royalties. 1991 Offshore Engineer Sept. 101/1 Yatzy abandoned five subsea producers. 5. A person responsible for the financial and managerial aspects of staging a play, opera, etc., or making a film or broadcast; (also) a person who supervises the making of a musical recording. Cf. produce v. 2d. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > director or producer play-dresser1602 acting manager1733 metteur en scène1851 producer1891 director1911 actor-producer1961 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming unit or team > [noun] > producer or director art director1871 producer1891 director1911 production director1915 actor-producer1927 society > communication > broadcasting > putting on or producing broadcast > [noun] > people involved in putting on broadcast script clerk1867 editor1881 programme builder1898 narrowcaster1930 story editor1930 sponsor1931 programme controller1934 scripter1936 lighting1956 producer1961 outside broadcaster1971 sound1972 programmer1978 1891 C. W. Scott & C. Howard Life E. L. Blanchard I. 213 Though he was a clever actor, he rose to greater fame as what we should now call a stage-manager or producer of plays. 1908 Moving Picture World 7 Nov. 355 The race course did not attract a large representation of moving picture producers. 1925 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 283/2 The great Delando, most resourceful of the Broadway producers, put down the last act of ‘The Republic’. 1938 W. S. Maugham Summing Up 107 I use the American word director rather than the English one, producer, because I think it better describes what should be the function of the person in question. 1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production 190 The producer may be the business-head of the programme, responsible for organization, finance, policy, etc., while his director is concerned with interpretation, staging and directing its production. 1976 M. Maguire Scratchproof iv. 51 Sam Goldwyn used to say that a producer shouldn't get ulcers, he should give them. 1989 A. Stevenson Bitter Fame x. 206 Ted was invited by a BBC producer to come and discuss a series of children's programs. 2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 Feb. a19 Kanye West, the hyper-talented rapper and producer whose album ‘Late Registration’ was nominated for eight Grammys. 6. Ecology. An organism that produces organic compounds from simple substances such as water, carbon dioxide, or nitrogen; an autotroph. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > organisms in relation to habitat > [noun] colonist1839 benthos1891 land form1897 heterotroph1900 autotroph1901 epibenthos1902 specialist1902 microaerophile1903 nitrifier1903 consumer1904 nitrogen fixer1904 producer1904 indicator1906 psychrophile1906 thermophil1909 sulphuretum1925 influent1926 halobiont1928 halophile1928 mesophile1928 oligosaprobe1931 saprobe1932 eurytope1938 stenotope1938 photoautotroph1939 chemoautotroph1943 prototroph1946 mixotrophy1948 chemolithoautotroph1949 auxotroph1950 chemoheterotroph1951 chemoorganotroph1953 chemolithotroph1955 chemotroph1958 osmophile1961 psychrotroph1963 saprotroph1963 generalist1964 opportunist1967 cryophile1970 1904 New Phytologist 3 125 In the ocean..the animals live directly or indirectly on the vegetable substances... It is obvious that the ‘consumers’ could not..be two to four times as great in quantity as the ‘producers’. 1941 Q. Rev. Biol. 16 397/1 Certain important groups of producer plankton..were absent from the neighbourhood of the poles. 1978 Sci. Amer. Mar. 102/2 These rodents derive energy directly from the primary producers (leaves, shoots, seeds and buds), from other consumers (invertebrates..) and from decomposers (fungi). 1991 R. S. K. Barnes & K. H. Mann Fund. Aquatic Ecol. (ed. 2) iii. 58/2 In coastal environments in which the water column is such that the photic zone reaches the bottom, macrophytes (vascular plants and macroalgae) may become the dominant producers. Compounds C1. Appositive, with sense ‘that is a producer and—’. producer-exhibitor n. ΚΠ 1920 Stage Year Bk. 52 It became increasingly certain, however, that the main body of exhibitors was opposed to the producer-exhibitor. 1949 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 16 May 7/2 The tight producer-exhibitor relationship in America means that a producer must displace one of his own films to show a British film. 1999 Variety (Nexis) 21 June 61 ‘Some 20 to 25 multi-screens, all less than 10 years old, will close by year-end 1999,’ says producer-exhibitor Primitivo Rodriguez. producer-novelist n. ΚΠ 1969 Listener 13 Feb. 219/2 The producer-novelist David Thomson gave us a good example in From Oblivion to Obscurity (Third Programme), by another novelist, with previous radio successes, F. C. Ball. 1999 Newsday (Nexis) 17 Sept. b47 Sunday's premiere hour from producer-novelist Barbara Hall..neatly traces the behavioral patterns that ultimately direct our lives. producer-retailer n. ΚΠ 1926 J. D. Black Introd. Production Econ. xxiv. 650 The producer-retailer might load his produce in a wagon and peddle it from house to house. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 5 Jan. 87/2 Producer-retailers with over 50 head of poultry will again be required to contribute ¼d per dozen. 1994 Managem. Sci. 40 999/2 A major New York fashion producer-retailer that designs, produces.., and sells fashion apparel through its own line of retail outlets. C2. Producer Choice n. British Television (also with lower-case initials) a policy of the BBC, instituted under John Birt (Director-General 1992–2000) in 1993, which gives programme makers control over their budgets, allowing them to purchase services from other departments, or from outside the Corporation. ΚΠ 1991 Times 30 Oct. 13/1 From April 1993 Television in the BBC will be organised on the basis of a system we are calling Producer Choice... Studios, outside broadcasts, graphics and film departments..will compete for business..from BBC producers. 2000 J. Caughie Television Drama vi. 173 The process within BBC drama before the days of the internal market and producer choice may indeed have been fertile ground for creative freedom, but they may also have lacked the creative discipline which Potter's work needed. producer goods n. goods used in the manufacture of other goods; opposed to consumer goods. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > [noun] > used to make something else producer goods1932 1932 G. Frank Thunder & Dawn xii. 382 A too great concentration of wealth means money in the hands of those who will invest it in producer goods. A wide distribution of wealth means money in the hands of those who will invest it in consumer goods. 1951 Manch. Guardian 14 May 4/2 It is, of course, extremely difficult to give a coherent picture when you are showing objects..that include producer goods, consumer goods, and transport. 1993 J. Kay Found. Corporate Success v. xvi. 254 Advertised commodities are generally consumer goods, not producer goods. producer gas n. gas produced by a producer (sense 3), used as a low-grade but inexpensive fuel and consisting chiefly of nitrogen and carbon monoxide with smaller amounts of hydrogen and carbon dioxide. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > gaseous, vaporous, or vaporized oxyhydrogen1823 acetylene1860 isobutane1876 albo-carbon1878 mixture1878 producer gas1883 astatki1885 hydrazine1887 oxy-gas1900 oxyacetylene1907 suction gas1907 propane gas1930 oxy-propane1963 oxy-fuel1967 syngas1975 autogas1982 1883 Times 12 May 8/6 The heating power of water gas seemed one half, but..for simplicity in using it when made it was far superior to producer gas, and more easily managed. 1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students x. 203 In many cases where producer gas is employed, however, the large amount of heat liberated in the producer represents a serious waste. 2000 New Scientist 19 Aug. 97/1 Producer gas is still used in many industrial furnaces. producer-oriented adj. directed toward or favouring producers of goods rather than consumers. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > of or relating to specific policies or actions imperial1726 co-operative1821 protectionist1844 inflationist1876 rational1915 deflationist1921 rationalist1942 producer-oriented1946 redistributionist1949 substantivist1956 supply side1957 demand-pull1958 tax-and-spend1960 stop-and-go1961 stop-go1962 go-stop1964 supply-driven1973 demand-side1975 supply side1976 demand-driven1980 1946 E. S. Mason Controlling World Trade 6 The regulation of international trade by cartels and producer-oriented commodity agreements may be extensive. 1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) ii. xxxi. 333 Nearly all of our technologies since Gutenberg have been..not producer-oriented, but consumer-oriented. 1992 College & Res. Libraries News Feb. 99/2 The processes were defined as diffusion-, mission- or producer-oriented. C3. producer-in-chief n. a producer with ultimate responsibility for a process or production. ΚΠ 1906 Times 1 Feb. 5/5 The Public is the producer in chief of theatrical entertainment that is intended to please the Public. 1918 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 4 June 9/1 His producer in chief, William Fox, has a mind which automatically places each of his stars in a particular groove and keeps them there. 1939 M. Spring Rice Working-class Wives i. 13 Men..are the recognised producers-in-chief. 1976 S. Wales Echo 23 Nov. 6/6 He is also producer-in-chief of a series of plays for Granada which will be shown in Britain. 2004 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 21 Nov. 76 With Steve Lillywhite returning as producer-in-chief, even the quieter songs end up as epics, and you may be left gasping for less. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1513
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