English Online Dictionary. What means productivity? What does productivity mean?
English
Etymology
From productive + -ity.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌpɹɑ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/, [ˌpɹɑ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ɾi], /ˌpɹoʊ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/, [ˌpɹoʊ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ɾi]
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˌpɹoʊdʌkˈtɪvɪti/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌpɹɔd.ɐkˈtɪv.ə.ti/, [ˌpɹɔd.ɐkˈtɪv.ə.ɾi]
- Hyphenation: pro‧duc‧ti‧vi‧ty
Noun
productivity (usually uncountable, plural productivities)
- The state of being productive, fertile or efficient.
- The rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers.
- The rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land.
- (linguistics) The ability to form new words using established patterns and discrete linguistic elements, as derivational affixes -ness and -ity.
Synonyms
- productiveness (less common)