Definition of "producer" []

• One that produces, especially a person or organization that produces goods or services for sale. (noun)
• One who supervises and controls the finances, creation, and public presentation of a play, film, program, or similar work. (noun)
• A furnace that manufactures producer gas. (noun)
• Ecology A photosynthetic green plant or chemosynthetic bacterium, constituting the first trophic level in a food chain; an autotrophic organism. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Andrew is right to correct the term producer, which is a very special title at Rocketboom — namely, his — and refers to the creative, which I did not work on."
• "I think publicists use phone more readily when the e-mail address for a certain producer is hard to find."
• "The term producer is often tossed around when discussing records."