"means of production" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: In English by 1733 in Peter Shaw, The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, Vol III, p. 52, noted: "Observe, what has been fully explained in the Novum Organum; that to discover the Causes of Things, is finding the Means to produce them, whence Causes, and the Means of Production are convertible terms." Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} means of production pl (plural only)
  1. (economics, Marxism) The combination of the means of labor, such as machines, tools, and equipment, and the subject of labor used by workers to make products. Wikipedia link: means of production Tags: Marxism, plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Economics, Marxism Synonyms: MOP Translations (combination of the means of labor and the subject of labor): وَسَائِل الْإِنْتَاج (wasāʔil al-ʔintāj) [plural] (Arabic), mitjans de producció [masculine, plural] (Catalan), 生產資料 (Chinese Mandarin), 生产资料 (shēngchǎn zīliào) (Chinese Mandarin), 生產工具 (Chinese Mandarin), 生产工具 (shēngchǎn gōngjù) (Chinese Mandarin), produktionsmiddel [common-gender] (Danish), produktadrimedoj [plural] (Esperanto), tuotantoväline (Finnish), moyens de production [masculine, plural] (French), საწარმო საშუალებები (sac̣armo sašualebebi) (Georgian), Produktionsmittel [neuter] (German), termelőeszköz (Hungarian), mezzi di produzione [masculine, plural] (Italian), ražošanas līdzekļi [masculine, plural] (Latvian), үйлдвэрлэлийн хэрэгсэл (üjldverleliin xeregsel) (Mongolian), środki produkcji [nonvirile] (Polish), meios de produção [masculine, plural] (Portuguese), mijloace de producție [neuter, plural] (Romanian), сре́дство произво́дства (srédstvo proizvódstva) (Russian), srèdstva proizvòdnje [Roman, feminine, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), medios de producción [masculine, plural] (Spanish), produktionsmedel [neuter] (Swedish), за́соби виробни́цтва (zásoby vyrobnýctva) [masculine, plural] (Ukrainian), tư liệu sản xuất (Vietnamese)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (bb46d54 and 0c3c9f6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.