color="gray">color="#222222">(reproduces, reproducing, reproduced)
1.
If you try to color="blue">reproduce something, you try to copy it.
color="#222222">color="#005500">I shall not try to reproduce the policemen's English...
color="#222222">color="#005500">The effect has proved hard to reproduce.
color="green">color="gray">VERB: V n, V n
2.
If you color="blue">reproduce a picture, speech, or a piece of writing, you make a photograph or printed copy of it.
color="#222222">color="#005500">We are grateful to you for permission to reproduce this article.
color="green">color="gray">VERB: V n
3.
If you color="blue">reproduce an action or an achievement, you repeat it.
color="#222222">color="#005500">If we can reproduce the form we have shown in the last couple of months we will be successful.
color="darkviolet">= color="gray">repeat
color="green">color="gray">VERB: V n
4.
When people, animals, or plants color="blue">reproduce, they produce young.
color="#222222">color="#005500">...a society where women are defined by their ability to reproduce...
color="#222222">color="#005500">We are reproducing ourselves at such a rate that our numbers threaten the ecology of the planet.
color="green">color="gray">VERB: V, V pron-refl
• reproduction
color="#222222">color="#005500">Genes are those tiny bits of biological information swapped in sexual reproduction.
color="green">color="gray">N-UNCOUNT