Other forms: productions
Production is the making of goods, or a staged show. Mass production, go into production, a school production.
The theatre sense means one particular staging of a play, so the same script yields a new production every time. In film and music, the production is everything done to the material after it is written or performed.
1nounproductionThe making of goods, or a staged show.
“Production at the car factory stopped for a week because of a shortage of parts.”
production is a making.
Latin productio comes from producere, to bring forth, from pro-, forward, plus ducere, to lead.
Latin
prōductiō
Old French
production
Middle English
produccioun
English, today
production
From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin prōductiō. From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin productio (“a lengthening, prolonging”). Equivalent to produce + tion. See produce.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA