Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality of being productive.
- noun Economics The rate at which goods or services are produced especially output per unit of labor.
- noun Ecology The rate at which photosynthesizing or chemosynthesizing producers form organic substances that can be used as food by consumers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The power of producing; productiveness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
productive ,fertile orefficient - noun the
rate at whichgoods orservices areproduced by astandard population ofworkers - noun the rate at which
crops aregrown on a standardarea ofland
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time
- noun the quality of being productive or having the power to produce
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Examples
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Economists always forget that a job with no corresponding increase in productivity is a net loss, it is simply another squirrel hauling walnuts.
The Saddest Sentence I've Read Today, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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No doubt the few percentage point increase in productivity from the slave class make a higher pie, and slightly more than linear growth.
And Bring on the Mexicans, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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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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Apart from budget growth and number of employees, the only gauge of an agency's "productivity" is the regulations it issues, as Cato
It's Time To Regulate The State Wayne Crews 2010
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