producer

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
produce

▶verb /prəˈdjuːs/ 

• 1 make, manufacture, or create.

  ■ create or form as part of a physical, biological, or chemical process.

• 2 cause to happen or exist.

• 3 provide for consideration, inspection, or use.

• 4 administer the financial and managerial aspects of (a film or broadcast) or the staging of (a play).

  ■ supervise the making of (a musical recording).

• 5 Geometry, dated extend or continue (a line).

▶noun /ˈprɒdjuːs/ things that have been produced or grown.

■ the result of work.

– derivatives
producer noun,
producibility noun,
producible adjective.

– origin ME: from L. producere, from pro- ‘forward’ + ducere ‘to lead’.