productivity
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From productive + -ity.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌpɹɑ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/, [ˌpɹɑ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ɾi], /ˌpɹoʊ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/, [ˌpɹoʊ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ɾi]
Audio (California); [ˌpɝ.ɾəkˈtɪv.ɪ.ɾi]: (file)
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˌpɹoʊdʌkˈtɪvɪti/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌpɹɔd.ɐkˈtɪv.ə.ti/, [ˌpɹɔd.ɐkˈtɪv.ə.ɾi]
- (Indic) IPA(key): /prɵdəktɪˈvɪʈi/
- Hyphenation: pro‧duc‧ti‧vi‧ty
Noun
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productivity (usually uncountable, plural productivities)
- The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient.
- Synonym: productiveness (less common)
- The rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers; those workers' degree of efficiency.
- You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
- 2025 October 31, Richard Partington, “‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- Productivity growth has disappointed across the western world since the 2008 financial crisis. But the UK has notched a significantly worse performance than many of its peers on this metric of output for each hour of work – which is a vital driver of economic growth, wages and living standards.
- 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, such as the derivational affixes -ness and -ity; the degree to which such formation happens.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]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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