📒 to make things to be sold, especially in large quantities
- Our company mainly produces goods for export.
- We pride ourselves on producing high-quality products.
- The local factory produces electronic components.
📒 to grow or make something as part of a natural process; to have a baby or young animal
- The region produces over 50 per cent of the country's wheat.
- I would like to find out more about how our food is produced.
- All our meat is locally produced.
📒 to create something, especially when skill is needed
- She produced a delicious meal out of a few leftovers.
- By 1912 he was producing purely abstract works.
- United produced their best performance of the season.
📒 to cause a particular result or effect
- A phone call to the manager produced the result she wanted.
- His words failed to produce the desired effect.
- These reforms will produce little change.
📒 to show something or make something appear from somewhere
- produce something from/out of something He produced a letter from his pocket.
- produce something She failed to produce any evidence to support these claims.
- At the meeting the finance director produced the figures for the previous year.
📒 if a town, country, etc. produces somebody with a particular skill or quality, the person comes from that town, country, etc.
- He is the greatest athlete this country has ever produced.
📒 to be in charge of preparing a film, play, etc. for the public to see
- She produced a TV series about adopted children.
- The series was obviously cheaply produced.
- a professionally produced CD