means of production

English

Etymology

Loan translation of German Produktionsmittel, coined by Karl Marx.

Noun

means of production (plural means of production)

1. (economics, Marxism) The combination of the means of labor, such as machines, tools, and equipment, and the subject of labor used by workers to make products.

Related terms

• factors of production
• mode of production

Translations

combination of the means of labor and the subject of labor

• Arabic: وَسَائِل الْإِنْتَاج pl (wasāʔil al-ʔintāj)
• Catalan: mitjans de producció m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生產資料／生产资料 (zh) (shēngchǎn zīliào), 生产资料 (zh) (shēngchǎn zīliào), 生產工具／生产工具 (zh) (shēngchǎn gōngjù), 生产工具 (zh) (shēngchǎn gōngjù)

• Danish: produktionsmiddel c
• Esperanto: produktadrimedoj pl
• Finnish: tuotantovälineet
• French: moyens de production m pl
• Georgian: საწარმო საშუალებები (sac̣armo sašualebebi)
• German: Produktionsmittel n
• Hungarian: termelőeszköz
• Italian: mezzi di produzione m pl
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• Latvian: ražošanas llīdzekļi m pl
• Mongolian: үйлдвэрлэлийн хэрэгсэл (üjldverleliin xeregsel)
• Polish: środki produkcji (pl) m pl
• Portuguese: meios de produção (pt) m pl
• Russian: сре́дство произво́дства (ru) (srédstvo proizvódstva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: srèdstva proizvòdnje f pl

• Spanish: medios de producción m pl
• Swedish: produktionsmedel n