productivity
English
Etymology
productive + -ity
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file)
Noun
productivity (usually uncountable, plural productivities)
- The state of being productive, fertile or efficient.
- The rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers.
- You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
- The rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land.
- (linguistics) The ability to form new words using established patterns and discrete linguistic elements, as derivational affixes -ness and -ity.
Synonyms
- productiveness (less common)
Derived terms
Translations
state of being productive
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rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers
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rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land
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