productivity
IPA: proʊdʌktˈɪvʌti
noun
- The state of being productive, fertile or efficient.
- The rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers.
- 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.
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Examples of "productivity" in Sentences
- Re: [Reefhound] Interesting study in "productivity"
- Re: [Manuel Dexterity] Interesting study in "productivity"
- Apart from budget growth and number of employees, the only gauge of an agency's "productivity" is the regulations it issues, as Cato
- No doubt the few percentage point increase in productivity from the slave class make a higher pie, and slightly more than linear growth.
- Economists always forget that a job with no corresponding increase in productivity is a net loss, it is simply another squirrel hauling walnuts.
- Using the conventional national economic accounts, we find that the rate of increase in productivity is large enough to account (in the statistical sense) for almost the entire growth of product per capita.
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