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productivity

[proh-duhk-tiv-i-tee, prod-uhk‐]

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noun

the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.

Economics. the rate at which goods and services having exchange value are brought forth or produced: Productivity increased dramatically last year.

Grammar. the ability to form new words using established patterns and discrete linguistic elements, as the derivational affixes -ness and -ity.

Related forms

an·ti·pro·duc·tiv·i·ty, adjective, noun

non·pro·duc·tiv·i·ty, noun

sem·i·pro·duc·tiv·i·ty, noun

un·pro·duc·tiv·i·ty, noun

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Example Sentences

But as productivity soared, wages and job opportunities stagnated.

Total factor productivity attempts to measure the overall productivity of the inputs used by a firm or a country.

Counter to the prevailing bravado myth, productivity is not a function of how long or torturously you work.

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But as productivity soared, wages and job opportunities stagnated.

Total factor productivity attempts to measure the overall productivity of the inputs used by a firm or a country.

Counter to the prevailing bravado myth, productivity is not a function of how long or torturously you work.

Productivity elsewhere doubled or tripled over the same period.

The artist's productivity soared in his new surroundings.

Marta is not my only neighbor who is outraged by the productivity of her tomato plants.

The lighting was cut back to normal and productivity still went up.

Over the long run economic growth depends on two things: increases in the supply and productivity of labour.

Learn about each of the partners in this collaborative effort to restore the ocean's health and productivity.

The two main drivers of ecomonic growth are increased productivity per capita and increased population.

Your boss is lecturing you on how to enhance your productivity.

The patty pan squash are finally decreasing their productivity.

Cross-country flights are graveyards for productivity.

It marked a sea change in thinking about work and productivity.

The findings are important to ensure continued productivity of farms and forests.

He also planned to raise his plot's productivity by fertilizing it.

We need to increase our productivity through a better trained workforce and better infrastructure.

Critics wonder why the software giant doesn't show the productivity and profitability its software promises users.

The private sector has revolutionised productivity by getting customers to do more things for themselves.

Such wetlands are comparable to rain forests and coral reefs in their biological diversity and productivity.

The upside is, more lighting means more productivity.

Higher prices in those areas, above what productivity gains can justify, are driving much of the progress slowdown.

That's one reason the productivity and diversity of the forests are so high.

Traces of barite in marine sediments give an indication of the ocean's productivity throughout the ages.

But slower productivity growth will raise the risk that overly loose monetary policy translates into higher inflation.

At issue: how to increase the productivity of rangelands, while at the same time protecting wildlife.

Moreover, each of these measures can be calculated in two ways: total productivity and first-author productivity.

The revolution, defined as transition from animal-based labor to machines that manufacture goods, vastly increased productivity.

Factory employment has been slower to recover than output, since productivity has risen.

Also important is condition, which depends on the productivity of the tribe who made it.

Faster productivity growth could help to mitigate the slowdown, but it does not seem to be forthcoming.

Information on climate change and how it will affect the abundance, diversity, and productivity of marine populations.

There is another way in which the higher minimum wage could produce higher productivity.

Ecologically healthy levels of biodiversity are essential to agricultural productivity.

Without printing, prices would gradually decline over long periods of time, as productivity improved.

Support our efforts to restore health and productivity to the ocean, the world's largest natural resource.

Over long periods of time, real wages tend to track average productivity growth.

Researchers agree that proper management of soy ?elds can increase soil productivity.

Programs to improve productivity range from those that monitor your habits to those that block time-wasting sites.

Creating a dissertation-support group made up of fellow doctoral students can enhance your productivity.

Employees who used work hours for exercise reported higher productivity than others who either took the time off or worked those.

We came up with this recipe as a way to control the crazy productivity of our pattypan squash plants.

We picked our favorites and put them in this gadget fit bag that covers it all, from productivity to recreation to style.

So remember that rising productivity means getting more output for less input.

There's a simple idea about productivity and writing: almost anything you need to do, you can do in a plain text file.

The only remedies are a period of wage restraint combined with structural reforms aimed at boosting productivity.

Flood plains that are prevented from flooding have significant drops in productivity over time.

As investment floods into shale wells, concerns about their productivity are spurring talk of a bubble.

Adding to my own list of tasks and increasing anyone else's inbox clutter certainly isn't my idea of productivity.

Second, new technologies must increase human productivity and ease of use.

And whether you're counting productivity or influence, it's hard to argue the point.

For perhaps the first time, manufacturers over the last two years have adopted programs to improve productivity and efficiency.

Hacker team has our own history with a range of productivity texts and tools.

Along the way, it would boost agricultural productivity through its ability to retain nutrients and moisture.

The wheelbarrow would have multiplied the productivity of some workers, but.

Even for writers not on a deadline, a dead battery is curtains for the easy productivity afforded by computers.

Economists will tell you that productivity increases go hand-in-hand with increases in the standard of living.

In the first, they considered only idle land or land with marginal productivity.

The chart below displays private sector productivity and real wage series for this recession.

There is a suggestion in the data that productivity was more responsive to changes in artificial than natural light.

The loss in terms of work productivity are even higher.

Such a colleague can curtail your own productivity at the office or even shut down teams as everyone tries to contain the chaos.

It will motivate the remaining nine to greater productivity.

Google introduced a marketplace of business software to help to spur the adoption of its own suite of productivity applications.

They should have mentioned explicitly how the observed productivity of women compared to the observed productivity of the men.

Spread the benefit of productivity to everyone by breaking the concentration of wealth, increase pay and reduce the work week.

It overstates productivity growth and cuts deeply into sleep, leisure and family time.

It was the job of the managers, he told them, to improve that productivity by refining the processes the workers had to perform.

More than differences in ecosystem integrity explain this wide gap in productivity.

Because warehouses operate under strict productivity measures, the data platform is already in place for a rigorous study.

In exchange, the city has obtained productivity increases, including the operation of some garbage trucks by only one.

Yet the productivity gap cannot be dismissed, and part of it can doubtless be explained by a lack of capital.

Part of the stupendous productivity of temperate rain forests comes from tree-dwelling lichens.

The earnings of male college graduates have failed to keep pace with productivity gains.

Your wages increase over your life-time even as your productivity declines past middle-age.

We're taking too much of the productivity of the ocean.

Indeed, big, heavily subsidized programs are rarely good for productivity.

Instead they need a combination of lower real wages, lower input prices and higher productivity.

India's reforms have certainly boosted the productivity of many businesses.

Biologists have established that this biocomplexity is responsible for the consistently high productivity of the watershed.

Differences in productivity are one explanation of this.

Germany's second big weakness is that its productivity growth has been relatively slow.

But it also tilted the country towards unskilled sorts of work, where productivity is low.

The challenge has been to show it's possible to increase productivity without sacrificing diversity.

The steady shrinking of the state-owned sector will also boost productivity by ensuring a better use of resources.

But with increased worker productivity came the incredible paranoia that meth, more than any other drug, is known for.

Economic growth is a function of the size of the workforce, the amount of capital employed and the rise in productivity.

But four years on, the complaint is that the policy has destroyed the work ethic and damaged productivity.

Letting users script online productivity apps is a conundrum neither empire has solved.

High-speed broadband is the essential infrastructure for increasing productivity.

Suppose the poor country, spurred by technical progress, improves productivity in the rich country's export goods:.

First, low wages go hand in hand with low productivity.

To up the pace, now is the time for reforms to boost productivity.

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World English Dictionary

productivity (ˌprɒdʌkˈtɪvɪtɪ)

—n
1.	the output of an industrial concern in relation to the materials, labour, etc, it employs
2.	the state of being productive

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Cultural Dictionary

productivity definition

In business, a measure of worker efficiency, such as one hundred units per hour. In economics, involvement in the creation of goods and services to produce wealth.

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