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production

noun · 21 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /pɹəˈdʌkʃən/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /pɹəˈdʌkʃn̩/
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  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: P R AH0 D AH1 K SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: P R OW0 D AH1 K SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 3: P ER0 D AH1 K SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The act of producing, making or creating something.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • The widget making machine is being used for production now.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The act of being produced.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • The widgets are coming out of production now.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The total amount produced.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • They hope to increase spaghetti production next year.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

The presentation of a theatrical work.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • We went to a production of Hamlet.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • He made a simple meal into a huge production.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • This is the final production model.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

The act of lengthening out or prolonging.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

An extension or protrusion.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Examples

  • Each production is implemented with a function.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences

Examples

  • production environment
  • live production database

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable

Qualifier: Scots law

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

(law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the appellate court demanded the production of all documents

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: exhibition

15

noun

Meaning 15

the act or process of producing something

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Shakespeare's production of poetry was enormous
  • the production of white blood cells

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: act, deed, human action, human activity

Narrower terms: rainmaking, devising, fashioning, making, foliation, canalization, canalisation, growing, steel production

16

noun

Meaning 16

the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: creation, creative activity

17

noun

Meaning 17

(economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he introduced more efficient methods of production

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: industry, manufacture

Narrower terms: mass production, overproduction, overrun, underproduction, output, yield, capacity, breeding, brewing, cultivation, generation, mining, excavation, quarrying, boring, drilling, oil production, sericulture

18

noun

Meaning 18

an artifact that has been created by someone or some process

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • they improve their product every year
  • they export most of their agricultural production

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: product

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: creation

Narrower terms: book, volume, by-product, byproduct, spin-off, deliverable, end product, output, inspiration, brainchild, job, magazine, newspaper, paper, outturn, turnout, turnery, work, piece of work, yield, fruit, movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick

19

noun

Meaning 19

a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • have you seen the new production of Hamlet?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: presentation

Narrower terms: theatrical production, staging

20

noun

Meaning 20

a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • she tends to make a big production out of nothing

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: display

21

noun

Meaning 21

the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • production was up in the second quarter

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: output, yield

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: indefinite quantity

Narrower terms: picking, pick

History

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.

Across languages

Translations

171 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: prodhim — the act of producing
  • Arabic: إِنْتَاج (ʔintāj) — the act of producing
  • Armenian: արտադրություն (artadrutʻyun) — the act of producing
  • Armenian: արտադրում (artadrum) — the act of producing
  • Armenian: թողարկում (tʻoġarkum) — the act of producing
  • Azerbaijani: istehsal — the act of producing
  • Azerbaijani: hazırlama — the act of producing
  • Azerbaijani: istehsalat — the act of producing
  • Azerbaijani: hasilat — the act of producing
  • Azerbaijani: çıxarılma — the act of producing
  • Belarusian: вытво́рчасць (vytvórčascʹ) — the act of producing
  • Belarusian: вытво́рчасьць (vytvórčasʹcʹ) — the act of producing
  • Bulgarian: произво́дство (proizvódstvo) — the act of producing
  • Burmese: ထုတ်လုပ်မှု (htutluphmu.) — the act of producing
  • Catalan: producció — the act of producing
  • Chinese Cantonese: 生產 /生产 — the act of producing
  • Chinese: сынцан (sɨncan) — the act of producing
  • Chinese: 生產 /生产 (zh-min-nan) — the act of producing
  • Chinese Mandarin: 生產 /生产 (shēngchǎn) — the act of producing
  • Czech: výroba — the act of producing
  • Czech: produkce — the act of producing
  • Danish: produktion — the act of producing
  • Dutch: productie — the act of producing
  • Esperanto: produktado — the act of producing
  • Estonian: tootmine — the act of producing
  • Faroese: framleiðsla — the act of producing
  • Finnish: valmistaminen — the act of producing
  • Finnish: tuotanto — the act of producing
  • Finnish: valmistus — the act of producing
  • French: production — the act of producing
  • Galician: produción — the act of producing
  • Georgian: წარმოება (c̣armoeba) — the act of producing
  • German: Produktion — the act of producing
  • German: Herstellung — the act of producing
  • Greek: παραγωγή (paragogí) — the act of producing
  • Hebrew: תְּפוּקָה (tfuká) — the act of producing
  • Hindi: उत्पादन (utpādan) — the act of producing
  • Hindi: पैदावार (paidāvār) — the act of producing
  • Hungarian: termelés — the act of producing
  • Icelandic: framleiðsla — the act of producing
  • Indonesian: produksi — the act of producing
  • Italian: produzione — the act of producing
  • Japanese: 生産 (seisan) — the act of producing
  • Japanese: 製造 (seizō) — the act of producing
  • Kazakh: өнім (önım) — the act of producing
  • Kazakh: өндіріс (öndırıs) — the act of producing
  • Khmer: ផលិតកម្ម (phaʼlitaʼkam) — the act of producing
  • Korean: 생산 (saengsan) — the act of producing
  • Korean: 제조 (jejo) — the act of producing
  • Kyrgyz: өндүрүш (öndürüş) — the act of producing
  • Lao: ການຜະລິດ (kān pha lit) — the act of producing
  • Latin: productio — the act of producing
  • Latvian: ražošana — the act of producing
  • Latvian: producēšana — the act of producing
  • Lithuanian: gamyba — the act of producing
  • : ᦂᦱᧃᦵᦣᧆᦉᦱᧂᧉ (k̇aanhedṡaang2) — the act of producing
  • Macedonian: производство (proizvodstvo) — the act of producing
  • Malay: pengeluaran — the act of producing
  • Malayalam: ഉൽപാദനം (ulpādanaṁ) — the act of producing
  • Māori: whakanaonga — the act of producing
  • Māori: whakaputanga — the act of producing
  • Mongolian: үйлдвэрлэл (üjldverlel) — the act of producing
  • Norwegian Bokmål: produksjon — the act of producing
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: produksjon — the act of producing
  • Occitan: produccion — the act of producing
  • Pannonian Rusyn: продукция (produkcija) — the act of producing
  • Dari: تَوْلِید (tawlīd) — the act of producing
  • Iranian Persian: تُوْلید (towlid) — the act of producing
  • Polish: wytwarzanie — the act of producing
  • Polish: produkcja — the act of producing
  • Portuguese: produção — the act of producing
  • Romanian: producere — the act of producing
  • Russian: произво́дство (proizvódstvo) — the act of producing
  • Russian: изготовле́ние (izgotovlénije) — the act of producing
  • Russian: добы́ча (dobýča) — the act of producing
  • Russian: вы́работка (výrabotka) — the act of producing
  • Serbo-Croatian: произво̀дња — the act of producing
  • Serbo-Croatian: proizvòdnja — the act of producing
  • Slovak: výroba — the act of producing
  • Slovak: produkcia — the act of producing
  • Slovene: proizvodnja — the act of producing
  • Spanish: producción — the act of producing
  • Spanish: elaboración — the act of producing
  • Spanish: producimiento — the act of producing
  • Swedish: produktion — the act of producing
  • Tagalog: produksiyon — the act of producing
  • Tagalog: pangangalalang — the act of producing
  • Tajik: тавлид (tavlid) — the act of producing
  • Telugu: ఉత్పత్తి (utpatti) — the act of producing
  • Thai: การผลิต (gaan-pà-lìt) — the act of producing
  • Turkish: üretim — the act of producing
  • Ukrainian: виробни́цтво (vyrobnýctvo) — the act of producing
  • Ukrainian: ви́роблення (výroblennja) — the act of producing
  • Urdu: پَیداوار (paidāvār) — the act of producing
  • Uyghur: ئىشلەپ چىقىرىش (ishlep chiqirish) — the act of producing
  • Uzbek: ishlab chiqarish — the act of producing
  • Vietnamese: sự sản xuất — the act of producing
  • Yiddish: אויסאַרבעטונג (oysarbetung) — the act of producing
  • Zhuang: swnghcanj — the act of producing
  • Zhuang: guhhong — the act of producing
  • Armenian: արտադրություն (artadrutʻyun) — the act of being produced
  • Bulgarian: произво́дство (proizvódstvo) — the act of being produced
  • Chinese Mandarin: 生產 /生产 (shēngchǎn) — the act of being produced
  • Czech: produkce — the act of being produced
  • Dutch: productie — the act of being produced
  • Finnish: tuotanto — the act of being produced
  • Finnish: valmistus — the act of being produced
  • French: production — the act of being produced
  • German: Produktion — the act of being produced
  • Hindi: उत्पादन (utpādan) — the act of being produced
  • Italian: produzione — the act of being produced
  • Latvian: ražošana — the act of being produced
  • Latvian: producēšana — the act of being produced
  • Norwegian Bokmål: produksjon — the act of being produced
  • Portuguese: produção — the act of being produced
  • Romanian: producție — the act of being produced
  • Russian: произво́дство (proizvódstvo) — the act of being produced
  • Serbo-Croatian: произво̀дња — the act of being produced
  • Serbo-Croatian: proizvòdnja — the act of being produced
  • Tagalog: pangangalalang — the act of being produced
  • Ukrainian: виробни́цтво (vyrobnýctvo) — the act of being produced
  • Armenian: արտադրություն (artadrutʻyun) — the total amount produced
  • Bulgarian: проду́кция (prodúkcija) — the total amount produced
  • Catalan: producció — the total amount produced
  • Chinese Mandarin: 產量 /产量 (chǎnliàng) — the total amount produced
  • Czech: výroba — the total amount produced
  • Czech: produkce — the total amount produced
  • Esperanto: produktado — the total amount produced
  • Finnish: tuotanto — the total amount produced
  • Finnish: valmistus — the total amount produced
  • French: production — the total amount produced
  • German: Produktion — the total amount produced
  • Greek: παραγωγή (paragogí) — the total amount produced
  • Hindi: उत्पादन (utpādan) — the total amount produced
  • Italian: produzione — the total amount produced
  • Central Kurdish: بەرھەم (berhem) — the total amount produced
  • Latvian: produkcija — the total amount produced
  • Latvian: ražība — the total amount produced
  • Macedonian: производство (proizvodstvo) — the total amount produced
  • Norwegian Bokmål: produksjon — the total amount produced
  • Portuguese: produção — the total amount produced
  • Romanian: producție — the total amount produced
  • Russian: производи́тельность (proizvodítelʹnostʹ) — the total amount produced
  • Russian: продукти́вность (produktívnostʹ) — the total amount produced
  • Scottish Gaelic: toradh — the total amount produced
  • Serbo-Croatian: произво̀дња — the total amount produced
  • Serbo-Croatian: proizvòdnja — the total amount produced
  • Spanish: producción — the total amount produced
  • Swedish: produktion — the total amount produced
  • Ukrainian: виробни́цтво (vyrobnýctvo) — the total amount produced
  • Armenian: բեմականացում (bemakanacʻum) — the presentation of a theatrical work
  • Armenian: բեմադրություն (bemadrutʻyun) — the presentation of a theatrical work
  • Bulgarian: постано́вка (postanóvka) — the presentation of a theatrical work
  • Chinese Mandarin: 製作 /制作 (zhìzuò) — the presentation of a theatrical work
  • Esperanto: enscenigo — the presentation of a theatrical work
  • German: Inszenierung — the presentation of a theatrical work
  • Greek: παράσταση (parástasi) — the presentation of a theatrical work
  • Norwegian Bokmål: oppsetning — the presentation of a theatrical work
  • Norwegian Bokmål: teateroppsetning — the presentation of a theatrical work
  • Portuguese: produção — the presentation of a theatrical work
  • Romanian: reprezentare — the presentation of a theatrical work
  • Romanian: înscenare — the presentation of a theatrical work
  • Russian: представле́ние (predstavlénije) — the presentation of a theatrical work
  • Russian: постано́вка (postanóvka) — the presentation of a theatrical work
  • Swedish: produktion — the presentation of a theatrical work
  • Bulgarian: проду́кция (prodúkcija) — that which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume
  • Chinese Mandarin: 產品 /产品 (chǎnpǐn) — that which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume
  • Macedonian: производ (proizvod) — that which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume
  • Romanian: producție — that which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume
  • Russian: проду́кция (prodúkcija) — that which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume
  • Russian: изде́лия (izdélija) — that which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume
Real reading context

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