Other forms: producers
A producer is the person who gets a film, a record or a television programme actually made: the money, the schedule, the crew, the mess. When a shoot runs three days late, the producer is the one on the phone at midnight.
Do not mix the producer up with the director. The director decides how it looks and how the actors play it; the producer decides that it can happen at all, and pays for it. In music the producer shapes the sound in the studio, and their name sits beside the artist's on the track. Outside the arts, a producer is anyone who makes or grows things in quantity: Brazil is the world's biggest producer of coffee, the region is a producer of steel. The verb is produce, and watch the noun produce, meaning fruit and vegetables, which is stressed on the first syllable, PRO-duce.
1nounproducerThe person who arranges the money, the schedule and the people so that a film, programme, play or record gets made.
“The producer found the money for two more shooting days.”
2nounmakerA person, company or country that makes or grows something, especially in large amounts.
“The region is Europe's largest producer of olive oil.”
synonyms: maker, manufacturer, grower
3nounshapesThe person who shapes the sound of a recording in the studio.
“The producer stripped the song back to a piano and one voice.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
producer is a role on a film, record or programme.
Latin
prōdūcō
Middle English
produce
English
produce
English, today
producer
Built from
From produce + -er. produce comes from Middle English produce, from Latin prōdūcō. From Middle English produce, from Latin prōdūcō (“to lead forth”), from prō- (“forth, forward”) + dūcō (“to lead, bring”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA