The verb is pronounced /prədju:s, AM -du:s/. The noun is pronounced /prɒdju:s, AM -du:s/ and is hyphenated prod‧uce.
( producing, produced)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
To produce something means to cause it to happen.
The drug is known to produce 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 produce something, you make or create it.
The company produced circuitry for communications systems...
VERB : V n
3.
When things or people produce 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 produce seed.
...gases produced by burning coal and oil.
VERB : V n , V-ed
4.
If you produce evidence or an argument, you show it or explain it to people in order to make them agree with you.
They challenged him to produce evidence to support his allegations...
VERB : V n
5.
If you produce an object from somewhere, you show it or bring it out so that it can be seen.
To hire a car you must produce a passport and a current driving licence...
VERB : V n
6.
If someone produces something such as a film, a magazine, or a CD, they organize it and decide how it should be done.
He has produced 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 produce in Britain...
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