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[ pruh-duhk-shuhn ] / prəˈdʌk ʃən / SEE SYNONYMS FOR production ON THESAURUS.COM
nounthe act of producing; creation; manufacture. something that is produced; a product. Economics. the creation of value; the producing of articles having exchange value. the total amount produced: Production is up this month. a work of literature or art. the act of presenting for display; presentation; exhibition: the production of evidence in support of the case. Informal. an unnecessarily or exaggeratedly complicated situation or activity: That child makes a production out of going to bed. the organization and presentation of a dramatic entertainment. the entertainment itself: an expensive production. adjectiveregularly manufactured; not custom-made, specially produced, or experimental: a production model. Origin of production1400–50; late Middle English <Latin prōductiōn- (stem of prōductiō) a lengthening. See product, -ion SYNONYMS FOR production6 introduction, appearance, display, materialization. SEE SYNONYMS FOR production ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM productionpro·duc·tion·al, adjectivenon·pro·duc·tion, noun, adjectivesu·per·pro·duc·tion, nounDictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for productionThe excuse given for non-production of authority was that the addressee was asleep. The Bristol Royal Mail|R. C. Tombs The prisoner's counsel saw the necessity of exhibiting it, or giving some reasonable explanation for its non-production. Twelve Years a Slave|Solomon Northup The manner of the production of souls, or rather their non-production is admirably well set down in Plotinus, See, Ennead. Democritus Platonissans|Henry More If he must see Lord Averil—and there could be no escape—what should be his plea for the non-production of those deeds? The Shadow of Ashlydyat|Mrs. Henry Wood
British Dictionary definitions for production
nounthe act of producing anything that is produced; product the amount produced or the rate at which it is produced economics the creation or manufacture for sale of goods and services with exchange value any work created as a result of literary or artistic effort the organization and presentation of a film, play, opera, etc British the artistic direction of a play - the supervision of the arrangement, recording, and mixing of a record
- the overall sound quality or character of a recordingthe material is very strong but the production is poor
(modifier) manufactured by a mass-production processa production model of a car make a production out of or make a production of informal to make an unnecessary fuss about Derived forms of productionproductional, adjectiveCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to productionmanufacture, management, construction, manufacturing, bearing, generation, creation, rendering, assembly, giving, presentation, direction, return, protraction, origination, provision, fabrication, prolongation, blossoming, elongation |