Noun: production
| Singular | production |
| Plural | productions |
Sample Sentences
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The widget making machine is being used for production now.
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I tramped to a neighbouring market-town, and, late as the hour was, the production of a few shillings procured me supper and a night's lodging in a cheap coffee-house. [1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Lost Sanjak”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, pages 16–17:]
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The widgets are coming out of production now.
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They hope to increase spaghetti production next year.
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The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing. [1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 136:]
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The UAE’s decision had been rumored as a possibility for some time, as it pushed back in recent years against OPEC production quotas it felt had been too low — meaning it wasn’t able to sell as much oil to the world as it had wanted. [2026 April 28, Jon Gambrell, “United Arab Emirates will leave OPEC in a blow to the oil cartel”, in AP News, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2026:]
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We went to a production of Hamlet.
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He made a simple meal into a huge production.
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This is the final production model.
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Each production is implemented with a function.
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production environment
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live production database
Nouns inflected like production
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
4. Proto-Indo-European *pér
5. Proto-Indo-European *-o
6. Proto-Indo-European *pró
7. Proto-Indo-European *pro-
8. Proto-Italic *pro-
9. Latin prō-
10. Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
11. Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
12. Proto-Italic *doukō
13. Latin dūcō
14. Latin prōdūcō
15. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
16. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
17. Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
18. Proto-Italic *-tiō
19. Latin -tiō
20. Latin prōductiōder.
21. Old French productionbor.
22. Middle English produccioun
23. English production
24. From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin prōductiō, prōductiōnem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). Equivalent to produce + -tion. See produce. See: Latin Nouns '
productio'.
Verbs referencing "production"
Finnish Nouns
produktio, Hungarian Nouns
produkció, Polish Nouns
produkcja, Russian Nouns
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