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/prˌoʊdəktˈɪvəti/ /prˌoʊdəktˈɪvɪti/ Listen

Productivity

noun

The quality of being productive or having the power to produce. Synonym: productiveness.

(economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time.

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... above all, taxes upon the unearned increment in land are necessary, legitimate, and fair; and that without any evil consequences to the refinement or the richness of our national life, still less any injury to the sources of its economic productivity, they will yield revenue sufficient in this year and in the years to come to meet the growing needs of Imperial defence and of ...

— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill

... and halibut—and each in its proper season furnishes fishing ground where are taken many other important species of migratory and pelagic food fishes as well as those named here. It is probable that no other fishing area equaling this in size or in productivity exists anywhere else in the world, and the figures of the total catch taken from it must show an enormous poundage and a most imposing sum representing the ...

— Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine • Walter H. Rich

... 1,000 seedlings where they are to grow and produce leaves for sale or home use. Among these, provided the seed has been good and true, at least 90 per cent will be about alike in appearance, productivity and otherwise. The remaining plants may show variations so striking as to attract attention. Some may be tall and scraggly, some may be small and puny; others may be light green, still others dark green; and so on. But there may be one or two plants that stand out conspicuously ...

— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses • M. G. Kains

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