• Produce

    Pronunciation

    • RP prÉ™dyoÍžos', IPA: /prəˈdjuːs/
    • US prÉ™doÍžos', IPA: /prəˈdus/

    Origin

    From Latin produco ("I lead forth or forward, bring forward, draw or stretch out, extend, prolong, conduct, etc., bring forth, bear, etc."), from pro ("forth, forward") + duco ("I lead, bring").

    Full definition of produce

    Verb

    1. (transitive) To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
    2. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
    3. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
    4. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.to produce a side of a triangle
    5. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.to produce a man's life to threescore

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    Noun

    produce

    (uncountable)
    1. Items produced.
    2. Amount produced.
    3. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms.
      • 1852, F. Lancelott, Australia As It Is: Its Settlements, Farms and Gold Fields, page 151,All fruits, vegetables, and dairy and poultry-yard produce are, in the Australian capitals, dear, and of very easy sale.
      • 1861, William Westgarth, Australia: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition, page 54,Taking a retrospect, then, of fourteen years preceding 1860, and making two periods of seven years each, the value of the exports of the produce or manufactures of this country to Australia has been, for the annual average of the first seven years, 1846-52, 2½ millions sterling; while for the second period, 1856-59, the annual average has been 11 millions.
      • 1999, Bruce Brown, Malcolm McKinnon, New Zealand in World Affairs, 1972-1990, page 291,While it is true that New Zealand′s economic stake in the region Oceania remained relatively small when compared with the major markets for New Zealand produce in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe, it nevertheless remained the region through which trade must pass on its way to these larger markets.
      • 2008, Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings, Cities As Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices, page 230,A farm supervisor is employed to coordinate the planting and harvesting of produce by volunteers.
    4. Offspring.
    5. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.

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