Meaning of productivity in English

productivity

/ˌprɒd.ʌkˈtɪv.ə.ti/ us

/ˌproʊ.dəkˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/

the rate at which a company or country makes goods, usually judged in connection with the number of people and the amount of materials necessary to produce the goods:

Studies show that if a working environment is pleasant, productivity increases.

a productivity bonus/incentive

Productivity in the steel industry improved by five percent last year.

More examplesFewer examples

The introduction of new working practices has dramatically improved productivity.
Our main objective is to improve the company's productivity.
The productivity figures are down/up on last week's.
It's a question of striking the right balance between quality and productivity.
The payback for reorganization should be increased productivity.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Creating and producing

See more results »

(Definition of productivity from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

productivity | American Dictionary

productivity

noun [ U ]

/ˌproʊ·dʌkˈtɪv·ɪ·t̬i, ˌprɑd·ək-/

Add to word list Add to word list

the rate at which a person, company, or country does useful work:

A pleasant working environment increases productivity.

(Definition of productivity from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

productivity | Business English

productivity

noun [ U ]

ECONOMICS, PRODUCTION

/ˌprɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/ us

Add to word list Add to word list

the rate at which a country, company, etc. produces goods or services, usually judged in relation to the number of people and the time necessary to produce them:

The productivity agreement gives staff an extra 10% pay if the team reaches its sales targets.

productivity increases/improves/goes up Studies show that if a working environment is pleasant, productivity increases.

increase/improve/boost productivity

an increase/decrease/fall in productivity

productivity gains/growth/improvement Many economists doubt that productivity growth can be credited to information technology.

the ability to do as much work as possible in a particular period:

Think about which times of day your productivity is highest, and do the most difficult tasks then.

The new phone has some useful apps for organizing information – it's a great productivity tool.

Examples of productivity

productivity

In the context of the model sketch presented above, stock returns and returns to capital are direct measures of productivity.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

Daily productivity is actually low due to low radiation levels and a cool growing season.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

All of this literature stresses the need for households to defer their individual interests to improve forest productivity and enhance the long-term community interest.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

Extremists of this view, called 'instrumentalists', believe that all or most knowledge productivity will increase provided the right information systems are implemented.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

The behavior of the labor-market variables also improves, with hours now being substantially less correlated with productivity.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

First, the accumulation of past idiosyncratic exogenous total factor productivity shocks enhances the labor-augmenting technology and has a positive permanent impact on labor efficiency.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

These factors include prices and production costs, crop yields, fish productivity and the suitability of land for agriculture or fish production.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

Chapters 2-3 survey definitions of productivity and methods of measuring productivity of morphological processes.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

Correlations of market productivity are often positive, but they are relatively low, and in most cases lower than those of output.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

In the dryer regions, no-till and crop rotations significantly improve yield and protect the productivity of the soil.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

They add a contract variable to a regression which explains different levels of production or productivity among countries or among regions within a country.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

For their productivity mission, and thus for imposing managerial absolutism, employers also relied on the sweeping offensive and sympathy lockouts.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

The use of genetic engineering to produce pest resistant transgenic plants represents one of many current approaches aimed at increasing agricultural productivity.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

Due to technical difficulties in randomizing which factors receive a boost, simulations were run for a subset of possible combinations of productivity improvements.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

Finally, productivity must also be considered when comparing agricultural systems, as a farm must be economically, as well as ecologically, sustainable.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations with productivity

productivity

These are words often used in combination with productivity.

Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.

agricultural productivity

The soil nutrients that normally pose the most important limitations to agricultural productivity are phosphorus and nitrogen.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

biological productivity

Conversion factors can be of great assistance in assessing the effects of soil amendments on biological productivity from yield data.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

future productivity

For example, the farmer may perceive that the opportunity cost of adoption is positive due to uncertainty about the future productivity of the conserving practice.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

See all collocations with productivity

What is the pronunciation of productivity?

Translations of productivity

in Chinese (Traditional)

生產率…

Meaning of productivity in English

productivity | American Dictionary

productivity | Business English

See also

Examples of productivity

Collocations with productivity

productivity

Translations of productivity

Browse

Learn more with +Plus

Learn more with +Plus