productivity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   the quality of being productive or having the power to produce

3. 3
   noun

   (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time

4. 4
   noun

   The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient.

5. 5
   noun

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

6. 6
   noun

   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.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Late Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Late Latin dūcō Late Latin prōdūcō Proto-Indo-European *-wósder. Late Latin -īvus Late Latin prōductīvusbor. English productive Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English productivity From productiv…