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# producer

«producer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person, company or country that makes or grows things…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a producer, producers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A producer is a person, company or country that makes or grows things to sell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/producer/#m1)

2) In science, a producer is a living thing, such as a plant, that makes its own food from sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/producer/#m2)

3) A producer is a person who is in charge of making a film, TV show, play or music record. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/producer/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science food chains start with a producer (grass, plants), then consumers that eat them. In geography and money lessons producers make goods and consumers buy them. Phrases: «food producer», «film producer», «producers and consumers».

### examples

- Plants are producers because they make their own food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/producer/#x1)
- In a food chain, grass is the producer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/producer/#x2)
- Canada is a big producer of wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/producer/#x3)
- The film producer chose the actors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/producer/#x4)
- Local producers sell eggs at the market. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/producer/#x5)
- Producers are always at the start of a food chain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/producer/#x6)
- The music producer recorded the band's new song. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/producer/#x7)

### note

Countable. Verb: produce; noun: product, production. Science: producer (makes food) vs consumer (eats food) vs decomposer (breaks down dead things).

### In the corpora

- [Twists on reality shows are usually planned by producers to keep people watching, not lucky accidents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/17/)
- [Every food chain begins with a producer, such as a green plant or an alga.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/6/)
- [Producers make their own food using the energy of sunlight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «producer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/producer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.