productivity
pronunciation
How to pronounce productivity in British English:
UK [ˌprɒdʌkˈtɪvəti]
How to pronounce productivity in American English:
US [ˌprɑːdʌkˈtɪvəti]
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- Noun:
- the quality of being productive or having the power to produce
- (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time
Word Origin
- productivity (n.)
- 1809, "quality of being productive," from productive + -ity. An earlier word for this was productiveness (1727). Economic sense of "rate of output per unit" is from 1899.