(producing, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
To ~ something means to cause it to happen.
The drug is known to ~ side-effects in women...
Talks aimed at producing a new world trade treaty have been under way for six years.
VERB: V n, V n
2.
If you ~ something, you make or create it.
The company ~d circuitry for communications systems...
VERB: V n
3.
When things or people ~ something, it comes from them or slowly forms from them, especially as the result of a biological or chemical process.
These plants are then pollinated and allowed to mature and ~ seed.
...gases ~d by burning coal and oil.
VERB: V n, V-ed
4.
If you ~ evidence or an argument, you show it or explain it to people in order to make them agree with you.
They challenged him to ~ evidence to support his allegations...
VERB: V n
5.
If you ~ an object from somewhere, you show it or bring it out so that it can be seen.
To hire a car you must ~ a passport and a current driving licence...
VERB: V n
6.
If someone ~s something such as a film, a magazine, or a CD, they organize it and decide how it should be done.
He has ~d his own sports magazine called Yes Sport...
VERB: V n
7.
Produce is food or other things that are grown in large quantities to be sold.
We manage to get most of our ~ in Britain...
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