Words / A2

pr-uh-DYOOS/prəˈdjuːs/

To produce is to make or grow something: produce cars, produce electricity, a farm that produces wheat. Manufacture is more factory-like; create is more about something new and original. Produce as a noun (PROduce) means farm food — a later stress pattern. Product is the thing that is made. Do not say “produce a baby” in everyday A2 English; say have a baby.

Meaning

To make or grow something.

Examples

• “The factory produces cars for export.”
• “This factory produces parts for bicycles.”
• “The region produces a lot of rice.”

Good to know

produce + goods / food. Noun (thing made): product. Farm food noun: produce (different stress).

Near in meaning

make

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