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Sounds | perdah'kshahn; prahdah'kshahn; prowdah'kshahn |
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Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2504 more rhymes in ahn at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale. |
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Examples | "he introduced more efficient methods of production" |
Category | economics, economic science, political economy |
Narrower | mass production; overproduction, overrun; underproduction; output, yield; capacity; breeding; brewing; cultivation; generation; mining, excavation; quarrying; boring, drilling, oil production; sericulture |
Broader | industry, manufacture |
Meaning | A presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television. |
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Examples | "have you seen the new production of Hamlet?" |
Parts | coup de theatre |
Narrower | theatrical production, staging |
Broader | presentation |
Verbs | produce |
Meaning | The act or process of producing something. |
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Examples | "Shakespeare's production of poetry was enormous"; "the production of white blood cells" |
Narrower | rainmaking; devising, fashioning, making; foliation; canalization, canalisation; growing; steel production |
Broader | act, human action, human activity |
Verbs | produce |
Meaning | An artifact that has been created by someone or some process. |
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Examples | "they export most of their agricultural production" |
Synonyms | product |
Narrower | book, volume; book; by-product, byproduct, spin-off; deliverable; end product, output; inspiration, brainchild; job; magazine; newspaper, paper; output, outturn, turnout; turnery; work, piece of work; yield, fruit |
Broader | creation |
Meaning | (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law. |
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Examples | "the appellate court demanded the production of all documents" |
Category | law, jurisprudence |
Broader | exhibition |
Verbs | produce |
Meaning | The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time). |
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Examples | "production was up in the second quarter" |
Synonyms | output, yield |
Narrower | picking, pick |
Broader | indefinite quantity |
Meaning | A display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated. |
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Examples | "she tends to make a big production out of nothing" |
Broader | display |
Meaning | The creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services. |
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Broader | creation, creative activity |