Productivity

//ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti// noun

noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    the quality of being productive or having the power to produce wordnet
  3. 3
    The rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers; those workers' degree of efficiency. uncountable, usually

    "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics."

  4. 4
    (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time wordnet
  5. 5
    The rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land. uncountable, usually
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  1. 6
    The ability to form new words using established patterns and discrete linguistic elements, such as the derivational affixes -ness and -ity; the degree to which such formation happens. uncountable, usually

Synonyms

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productivenessproductivenessabundanceamperageamplitudearmipotence

Example

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"Recent overseas transfers show that productivity improvements in Japanese manufacturing industry have almost reached their limit."

Etymology

From productive + -ity.

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