n. the state of being productive, fertile or efficient
n. the rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers
n. the rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The power of producing; productiveness.
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n. (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time
n. the quality of being productive or having the power to produce
Word Usage
"Using the conventional national economic accounts, we find that the rate of increase in productivity is large enough to account (in the statistical sense) for almost the entire growth of product per capita."