coproduction

noun

co·​pro·​duc·​tion (ˌ)kō-prə-ˈdək-shən 

-prō-

variants or co-production

plural coproductions or co-productions

1

: the act or process of coproducing something

Already firmly entrenched in the coal business, most of the larger utilities have turned to optimizing the use of coal, and one means is coproduction of gaseous fuels …

—Joseph Haggin

2

: something (such as a show or movie) that is coproduced

A coproduction with the BBC, Rome recently kicked off its twelve-episode first season, a seductively lurid mix of real history … and racy potboiler …

—Celia Wren

Examples of coproduction in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Within other alliances, the United States could then pay more attention to the areas of cooperation that benefit it most, such as technology cooperation and defense coproduction. —Rebecca Lissner, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025

With the purchase, Alcon will have to navigate coproduction ventures with WBD. Village Roadshow’s solo production venture coincided with a period of upheaval at then-WB that saw the studio refuse to develop titles in which the financier co-owned the related rights. —Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025

Gérard Guillemot and Margaret Boykin are overseeing the project for Ubisoft, in coproduction with 10.80 Films’ Nabil Ben Yadir, and Adil & Bilall under their Los Morros banner. —Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 May 2025

The film is an official French-Italian-Belgian coproduction between Mallet-Guy’s Memento Production in France, Andrea Occhipinti’s Lucky Red in Italy, and André Logie’s Panache Productions and Gaëtan David’s La Compagnie Cinématographique in Belgium. —Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1837, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for coproduction

• deconstruction
• introduction
• liposuction
• misconstruction
• postproduction
• preconstruction
• preproduction
• reconstruction
• reproduction
• abduction
• adduction
• conduction