"productivity" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌpɹɑ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/ [General-American], [ˌpɹɑ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ɾi] [General-American], /ˌpɹoʊ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/ [General-American], [ˌpɹoʊ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ɾi] [General-American], /ˌpɹoʊdʌkˈtɪvɪti/ [Canada], /ˌpɹɔd.ɐkˈtɪv.ə.ti/ [General-Australian], [ˌpɹɔd.ɐkˈtɪv.ə.ɾi] [General-Australian], /prɵdəktɪˈvɪʈi/ (note: Indic) Audio: en-us-productivity.ogg Forms: productivities [plural]
Etymology: From productive + -ity. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|productive|-ity}} productive + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} productivity (usually uncountable, plural productivities)
  1. The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: productiveness Translations (state of being productive): إنْتَاجِيَّة (ʔintājiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), արդյունավետություն (ardyunavetutʻyun) (Armenian), productivitat [feminine] (Catalan), 生產力 /生产力 (shēngchǎnlì) (Chinese Mandarin), 效率 (xiàolǜ) (Chinese Mandarin), produktivita [feminine] (Czech), vruchtbaar (Dutch), produktiveco (Esperanto), tuottavuus (Finnish), tuotteliaisuus (Finnish), hedelmällisyys (english: fertility) (Finnish), tehokkuus (english: efficiency) (Finnish), productivité (French), Produktivität [feminine] (German), Leistungsfähigkeit [feminine] (German), παραγωγικότητα (paragogikótita) [feminine] (Greek), keproduktifan (Indonesian), táirgiúlacht [feminine] (Irish), bisiúlacht [feminine] (Irish), produttività [feminine] (Italian), 生産性 (seisansei) (Japanese), ផលិតភាព (pho lit pheap) (Khmer), produktivitet [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), produktivitet [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), produktywność [feminine] (Polish), produtividade [feminine] (Portuguese), productivitate [feminine] (Romanian), производи́тельность (proizvodítelʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), продукти́вность (produktívnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), productividad [feminine] (Spanish), pagkamalalangin (Tagalog), ผลิตภาพ (pà-lìt-dtà-pâap) (Thai)
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  2. The rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers; those workers' degree of efficiency. Wikidata QID: Q2111958 Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers): արտադրողականություն (artadroġakanutʻyun) (Armenian), tuottavuus (Finnish), joutuisuus (Finnish), produktywność [feminine] (Polish), productivitate [feminine] (Romanian), производи́тельность (proizvodítelʹnostʹ) (Russian), pagkamalalangin (Tagalog)
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  3. The rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land. Wikidata QID: Q3289687 Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land): բերքատվություն (berkʻatvutʻyun) (Armenian), satoisuus (Finnish), pagkamalalangin (Tagalog)
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  4. (linguistics) 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. Wikidata QID: Q2634309 Tags: uncountable, usually
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bioproductivity, counterproductivity, nonproductivity, palaeoproductivity, paleoproductivity, semiproductivity, underproductivity

Inflected forms

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          "roman": "proizvodítelʹnostʹ",
          "sense": "state of being productive",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "производи́тельность"
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      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "lang_code": "nb",
      "sense": "state of being productive",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "produktivitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "lang_code": "nn",
      "sense": "state of being productive",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "produktivitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "state of being productive",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "produktywność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "state of being productive",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "produtividade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "state of being productive",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "productivitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "proizvodítelʹnostʹ",
      "sense": "state of being productive",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "производи́тельность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "produktívnostʹ",
      "sense": "state of being productive",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "продукти́вность"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "state of being productive",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "productividad"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "lang_code": "tl",
      "sense": "state of being productive",
      "word": "pagkamalalangin"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "lang_code": "th",
      "roman": "pà-lìt-dtà-pâap",
      "sense": "state of being productive",
      "word": "ผลิตภาพ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "lang_code": "hy",
      "roman": "artadroġakanutʻyun",
      "sense": "rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers",
      "word": "արտադրողականություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers",
      "word": "tuottavuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers",
      "word": "joutuisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "produktywność"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "productivitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "proizvodítelʹnostʹ",
      "sense": "rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers",
      "word": "производи́тельность"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "lang_code": "tl",
      "sense": "rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers",
      "word": "pagkamalalangin"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "lang_code": "hy",
      "roman": "berkʻatvutʻyun",
      "sense": "rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land",
      "word": "բերքատվություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land",
      "word": "satoisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "lang_code": "tl",
      "sense": "rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land",
      "word": "pagkamalalangin"
    }
  ],
  "word": "productivity"
}

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