Productivity
[prɒdʌk'tɪvɪtɪ] or [,prodʌk'tɪvəti]
Definition
(noun.) (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.
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Examples
- He saw the perfect good-humoured callousness, even strange, glistening malice, in Gerald, glistening through the plausible ethics of productivity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And even the splendours of monarchy were enormously costly, measured by the productivity of the time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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