English Explanatory Dictionary

production

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of producing, making or creating something.
  2. The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.
  3. The act of being produced.
  4. The total amount produced.
  5. The presentation of a theatrical work.
  6. An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
  7. That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).
  8. The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
  9. An extension or protrusion.
  10. A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)
  11. The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
  12. Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.

Pronunciation

/pɹəˈdʌkʃən/ /pɹəˈdʌkʃn̩/ /pɾɵˈdəkʃən/ en-us-production.ogg En-uk-production.ogg

Word forms

production productions

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin prōductiōder. Old French productionbor. Middle English produccioun English production From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin prōductiō, prōductiōnem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). Equivalent to produce + -tion. See produce.

Derived words

agroproduction anarchy of production autoproduction batch production bioproduction Breit-Wheeler pair production burden of production co-production coproduction desiring-production electroproduction eroduction factor of production flow production hadroproduction hyperproduction hypoproduction industrial livestock production job production leptoproduction make a production out of mass production means of production mesoproduction misproduction mode of production multiproduction nanoproduction nonproduction osteoproduction overproduction pair production photoproduction post-production pre-production preproduction primary production productionable productional production baby production brigade production car production code production externality production hell productionisation productionise productionize productionist productionless production line production manager production means production model production music production order production possibility curve production record production team production value
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