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Productivity  n.  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. "Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Productivity" Quotes from Famous Books



... everywhere."[1118] Hence, "his statue rode upon bulls, for the bull was the symbol of generative power; and he was also represented with bunches of grapes and pomegranates in his hand,"[1119] emblems of productivity. The sacred conical stones and pillars dedicated in his temples[1120] may have had their origin in a similar symbolism. As polytheistic systems had always a tendency to enlarge themselves, Baal had ...
— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson

... The Poggenpuhls (1896) and Stechlin (1898) won him further laurels at a time when most writers would long ago have been resting on those they had already achieved. If a line were drawn to represent graphically his productivity from his sixtieth year on, it would take the form of ...
— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

... rotating cultivation technique in which trees are cut down and burned in order to clear land for temporary agriculture; the land is used until its productivity declines at which point a new plot is selected and the process repeats; this practice is sustainable while population levels are low and time is permitted for regrowth of natural vegetation; conversely, where these conditions do not exist, the ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.



Words linked to "Productivity" :   unproductiveness, productive, productiveness, economic science, fecundity, fruitfulness, ratio



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