
In general: process of physically preparing advertising in its completed form. Production entails the specification of typography, procuring paper for print jobs, securing printing, type, and engraving estimates from suppliers, and ordering printing plates and engravings. In addition, production involves checking a publication's mechanical requirements and closing dates and communicating this information to the agency to assure that scheduling deadlines are met and a quality advertisement is produced.
Broadcast:
1. Preparation of television or radio program, motion picture, or play for its showing. Production involves determining the show's format, staffing, supervising script editing and rehearsing, coordinating camera men, securing a proper studio, and assuring that the entire program runs smoothly. See also producer.
2. Dramatic entertainment that has been created and produced for an audience. For example, students may attend a production of a famous classic.
Manufacturing: process of physically creating an offering for a target market. For example, the production of widgets may be produced for target market XYZ.
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noun
Definition: creating of goods, result
Antonyms: destruction, ruin
In ecology, the increase of body mass as food is converted into new living material.
Many historians place the beginnings of mass production around 1800, with Eli Whitney's firearms factory approximating the labor process of modern industrial production. The mass production method, generally involving the piecing together of standardized, interchangeable parts by a number of workers, reached its apex in the automobile manufacturing of the early 20th cent. Increasing automation, with attendant increases in the division of labor, allowed manufacturers to hire unskilled or semiskilled labor, which would repeatedly perform small tasks in the ultimate production of a commodity. Hence, mass production often took the form of an assembly line, in which a continuous flow of products moves steadily forward toward completion.
For most kinds of production in modern society, large amounts of capital in the form of machinery are required. Equally essential are land and its natural resources, from which the raw materials are obtained, and labor, which, with the aid of capital, extracts and transforms the raw materials. To these three primary factors of production is sometimes added a fourth: the entrepreneur who organizes the forces of production and assumes the risks. Since under capitalism production is for a market, an important function of the entrepreneur is to anticipate as accurately as possible the economic demands for goods and to produce the kind and quantity of goods that will meet that demand. In order to meet the great expenses of mass production, particularly the capital necessary in most industries, groups of speculators often take on the risks of production, and the individual entrepreneur has become less significant.
Another late 20th-century trend has been toward greater computerization of the production process; increasingly, computers are not only being integrated into the machinery of production but are replacing much of the human labor as well. Computerization has made assembly lines faster and more accurate and has given them more flexibility. Through computerized instructions, the design and manufacture of many mass-produced products can easily be modified to suit the needs of the individual customer.
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
— J. M. Clarke
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Quotes:
"The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm."
- Albert Camus
"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
- Albert Camus
"Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."
- Karl Marx
1. the act of producing.
2. the total of things produced.
The amount of work that can be accomplished in a specific length of time.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - produktion, værk, iscenesættelse
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Nederlands (Dutch)
productie, opvoering, regie, fabricage
Français (French)
n. - (Agric, Ind) production, fabrication, (Biol, Sci) production, présentation (de), production (d'un film, d'un disque), (Théât) mise en scène
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Deutsch (German)
n. - Herstellung, Produktion, Erzeugung, Vorzeigen, Inszenierung, Werk
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Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - παραγωγή, κατασκευή, επίδειξη, παρουσίαση, εμφάνιση, ανέβασμα θεάματος
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Italiano (Italian)
produzione, rappresentazione, spettacolo
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Português (Portuguese)
n. - produção (f)
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Русский (Russian)
производство, производительность, генерирование, постановка
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Español (Spanish)
n. - producción, fabricación, presentación, obra, dirección, realización
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Svenska (Swedish)
n. - framställning, tillverkning, produkt, framläggande, inspelning, uppförande
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
生产, 摄制, 制作, 演出
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中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 生產, 攝製, 製作, 演出
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日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 生産, 製造, 製作, 製品, 作品, 生産高, 延長, 延長線, 提供, 演出
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العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) إنتاج
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ייצור, יצירה, תפוקה, הפקה, הצגה, שליפה
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