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pr-uh-DUKSHUN/prəˈdʌkʃn/

Production is making goods or a show, or a particular staging: steel production; a school production of Hamlet. Produce is the verb (already in the dictionary). Steel production fell after the outage. Uncountable for industry; a production for a staging. Mix-up: productivity is output per worker (already elsewhere).

Meaning

The process of making goods or a show; also a particular staging of a play.

Examples

• “Steel production fell after the furnace outage, the business paper said.”
• “The school production of Hamlet sold out, which is the theatre sense.”

Good to know

in production; a theatre production; mass production. Verb: produce. Trap: productivity. Business and drama. Process or staging, not a single product on a shelf.

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