productivity

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UK /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/ US /ˌpɹɑ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/

noun 4

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

high, low | greater, improved, increased

lost

During the pandemic, many companies struggled with lost productivity when their employees worked from home.

agricultural, labour, manufacturing

QUANT

level

Workers complained that the noise level reduced their productivity during the afternoon shift.

VERB + PRODUCTIVITY

boost, improve, increase, raise | decrease, reduce

PRODUCTIVITY + VERB

increase, rise | decrease, drop, fall

PRODUCTIVITY + NOUN

level | gains, growth, increase

deal

The factory workers accepted a productivity deal that included higher wages and better working conditions.

PHRASES

a decline/reduction in productivity, a gain/an improvement/an increase in productivity, growth in productivity

The factory reported a significant increase in productivity after installing new equipment.

Definitions

noun

The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient.

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.

Productivity growth has disappointed across the western world since the 2008 financial crisis. But the UK has notched a significantly worse performance than many of its peers on this metric of output for each hour of work – which is a vital driver of economic growth, wages and living standards.

The rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land.

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

Synonyms

noun — the quality of being productive or having the power to produ

productiveness

Antonyms

unproductiveness

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

Wiktionary

Productivity growth has disappointed across the western world since the 2008 financial crisis. But the UK has notched a significantly worse performance than many of its peers on this metric of output

Wiktionary

Recent overseas transfers show that productivity improvements in Japanese manufacturing industry have almost reached their limit.

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The president instructed the employees to improve their productivity.

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Plant growth and productivity react sharply to a complex combination of temperature and moisture.

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We'll employ a new tool to increase productivity.

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