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/prədˈəkʃən/ /proʊdˈəkʃən/ /pərdˈəkʃən/ Listen

noun

Production n.

The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.

That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the productions of the earth; the productions of handicraft; the productions of intellect or genius.

The act of lengthening out or prolonging.

Synonyms: Product; produce; fruit; work; performance; composition.

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Etymology of 'Production'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... a baby show but she considered it "a sad exhibition, unless it may be the crude and rude beginning of arousing an interest in the laws which govern the production of strong, healthy, beautiful children." She heard Mr. Higginson preach every Sunday, and of one sermon on the "Secret Springs of True Greatness" she ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... and to consult the wishes of his guests rather than his own. Miss Delmaine herself has laughingly declined to make any choice of a stage lover, so that, up to the present moment, matters are still in such a state of confusion and uncertainty that they have been unable to name any date for the production of ...

— The Haunted Chamber - A Novel • "The Duchess"

... have been wrongly attributed to Rashi: a medical work, Sefer ha-Refuah; a grammatical work, Leshon Limmudim, actually composed by Solomon ben Abba Mari of Lunel; and an entirely fanciful production called Sefer ha- ...

— Rashi • Maurice Liber

... part which he intended her to take in his production—the part of dupe—Mrs. Justus Propbridge was, as one might say, made to order. Consider her qualifications: young, pretty, impressionable, vain and inexperienced; the second wife of a man who even in these times of ...

— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb

... of Matter throughout all these changes ever remains the same. Thus, throughout all the physical and chemical changes that Matter may undergo in the universe, there is no actual loss in weight or quantity. Throughout the whole realm of Nature we do not find a single instance of the production of absolutely new Matter. We may, and can produce new combinations of the forms of Matter. The substance so formed by chemical combination may be different from anything that has ever been seen or produced before, but the elements of which it is formed must have ...

— Aether and Gravitation • William George Hooper

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