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# production

«production» in Mova's school dictionary: **Making or growing things, especially in large amounts:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (production, productions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Making or growing things, especially in large amounts: car production, food production. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/production/#m1)

2) The amount that is made: Production rose by 200 tins a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/production/#m2)

3) A play, show or film that is put on for people: the school production of «Annie». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/production/#m3)

4) (formal) Showing something: «on production of a ticket» means when you show a ticket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/production/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths production problems are rates: «A factory makes 40 toys an hour; how many in 8 hours?» → 320; production per day, per worker, total production. In geography and science: oil production, energy production, milk production on farms. At school, the end-of-term production is the play. Phrases: «in production», «mass production», «go into production», «the school production», «on production of».

### examples

- Our class is in the school production this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/production/#x1)
- Milk production on the farm is 500 litres a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/production/#x2)
- Car production stopped for a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/production/#x3)
- Production rose from 300 to 450 toys — an increase of 150. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/production/#x4)
- Entry is free on production of a library card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/production/#x5)
- Plants use sunlight for the production of food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/production/#x6)
- The film is still in production. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/production/#x7)
- Mass production makes things cheaper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/production/#x8)

### note

Uncountable for the process; countable for a show (productions). Verb: produce; adjective: productive. In rate problems: production = rate × time; rate = production ÷ time.

### Trees and pragmatics

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