productivity

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productivity

/ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/ UK
/-vɪti/ UK
/ˌpɹɔdʌkˈtɪvətɪj/ British, Southern, Standard
/-vɪtɪj/ British, Southern, Standard
/ˌpɹoʊdʌkˈtɪvəti/ Canada, US
[ˌpɹoʊdʌkˈtɪvəɾi] Canada, US
/ˌpɹɑdʌkˈtɪvəti/ Canada, US
[ˌpɹɑdʌkˈtɪvəɾi] Canada, US
/ˌpɹɔdɐkˈtɪvəti/ Australia
[ˌpɹɔdɐkˈtɪvəɾi] Australia
/ˌpɹɒdʊkˈtɪvəti/ Northern England
/-vɪti/ Northern England
/ˌpɹɔdʌkˈtɪvəte/ Scotland
/-vɪte/ Scotland

noun productivities

uncountable, usually The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient.
Similar: productiveness
uncountable, usually 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.
uncountable, usually The rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land.
uncountable, usually 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.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: productiveness, effectiveness, efficiency, performance, capacity, production, cost-effectiveness, profitability, yield, return, workload, output, value-added, competitiveness, vitality, capital

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noun state of being productive

Español	productividad
日本語	生産性 seisansei
中文	生產力 /生产力 shēngchǎnlì, 效率 xiàolǜ
Português	produtividade
Français	productivité
Deutsch	Produktivität, Leistungsfähigkeit
Italiano	produttività
Ελληνικά	παραγωγικότητα paragogikótita
Română	productivitate
Русский	производи́тельность proizvodítelʹnostʹ, продукти́вность produktívnostʹ
العربية	إنْتَاجِيَّة ʔintājiyya

noun rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers

Română	productivitate
Русский	производи́тельность proizvodítelʹnostʹ

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@misc{productivity_2026,
  title = {productivity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/productivity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}