Produce Meaning
/pɹəˈd͡ʒuːs/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
verbTo make or yield something.
Sentence Examples
Bad seed must produce bad corn.
Each way of sleeping is likely to produce a different kind of adult.
The market is full of farm produce.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The factory can ____ over a thousand cars each day using its new assembly line.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The farm was able to ____ enough vegetables to supply the entire local market throughout the year.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcōder. Middle English produce English produce From Middle English produce, from Latin prōdūcō (“to lead forth”), from prō- (“forth, forward”) + dūcō (“to lead, bring”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[chapter XIII, page 264:] […] the greatest jurist that his country had produced. […] [chapter XVI, page 644:] At Rome the news from Ireland produced a sensation of a very different kind."
— 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
"Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants."
— 1999, Steven O. Shattuck, Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification, volume 3, CSIRO Publishing, page 72:
"For example, Mary Lou Morris, past president of the Environment Institute of Australia, has been her country′s delegate to a number of global environmental conferences and helped to produce the Australian National Heritage Charter."
— 2000, Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, quoting Jane McGary, Environment: Australia and New Zealand, quoted in Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension, page 567:
"The Agreement criminalizes end-user piracy and requires Australia to authorize the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of counterfeit and pirated goods and the equipment used to produce them."
— 2006, Office of the United States Trade Representative, National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers: 2006, page 29:
"We discovered that they produce more than 2,000 megawatts from wind energy."
— 2006 November 21, Kenya National Assembly, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard): Parliamentary Debates, page 3805:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The factory can ____ over a thousand cars each day using its new assembly line.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The farm was able to ____ enough vegetables to supply the entire local market throughout the year.