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producer 1. Brit a person responsible for the artistic direction of a play, including interpretation of the script, preparation of the actors, and overall design 2. US and Canadian a person who organizes the stage production of a play, including the finance, management, etc. 3. the person who supervises the arrangement, recording, and mixing of a record 4. Economics a person or business enterprise that generates goods or services for sale 5. Chem an apparatus or plant for making producer gas 6. Ecology an organism, esp a green plant, that builds up its own tissues from simple inorganic compounds producer [prə′dü·sər] (ecology) An autotrophic organism of the ecosystem; any of the green plants. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| It must be weighed, the various taxes set apart, and the remainder returned to the producer. He had so intently watched this tulip, followed it so eagerly from the drawer in Cornelius's dry-room to the scaffold of the Buytenhof, and from the scaffold to the fortress of Loewestein; he had seen it bud and grow in Rosa's window, and so often warmed the air round it with his breath, that he felt as if no one had a better right to call himself its producer than he had; and any one who would now take the black tulip from him would have appeared to him as a thief. Then had followed the news that the producer of this awful event was a stranger, a mighty magician at Arthur's court; that he could have blown out the sun like a candle, and was just going to do it when his mercy was purchased, and he then dissolved his enchantments, and was now recognized and honored as the man who had by his unaided might saved the globe from destruction and its peoples from extinction. |
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