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Definition of productive in English:

productive

adjective prəˈdʌktɪvprəˈdəktɪv
  • 1Producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or other commodities.

    富有生产力的;多产的;富饶的;肥沃的

    the most productive employees

    最高产的雇员。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This makes soil more productive and able to support bigger and better crops at the lowest possible economic cost to farmers.
    • Malaysia's young, educated, and highly productive workforce remains one of the country's key attributes.
    • In a free market, employers want the most productive work force.
    • For precision organic farming to work, we need to keep our farmers productive and unharmed.
    • In fact, as space grew, the industry became less productive.
    • Does Clark's property system preserve incentives to make land productive?
    • The people who work with me are able to be more productive because I put a little less baggage in their way than before.
    • A country's most productive force is its diverse strata of human resources.
    • Deforestation and overgrazing destroy productive land, while acid rain damages crops.
    • The World Wildlife Fund has released a report that assesses our ecological footprint, or the amount of productive land and sea needed to sustain current lifestyles.
    • White farmers would sell their land to the black community, and then help keep it productive.
    • Farmers who are able to be productive and prove useful to society will find us cooperative.
    • My dad ran his coal mine so as to make it as productive as he possibly could.
    • Some have managed to take an interest in their land and make it productive, but many have simply reaped the standing crop and then left the land derelict.
    • Settling in South Dakota, Martin Eden initially focuses on transforming the prairie into productive farmland.
    • And savvy employers have started to realize that a happy employee is a productive one.
    • Of course, certain institutions are necessary to become economically productive too, but these are not necessarily political.
    • Seems like depression does benefit me, I am more productive at work.
    • They can be grown on land that's less productive for traditional crops.
    • A retired North Yorkshire farmer has invented a device which could help reduce flooding risks and pollution - while keeping arable land fertile and productive.
    • In today's tight labor markets, both public and private employers will presumably benefit from being able to keep productive older employees on the job longer.
    Synonyms
    fertile, fruitful, rich, fecund, high-yielding
    1. 1.1 Relating to or engaged in the production of goods, crops, or other commodities.
      富有生产力的;多产的;富饶的;肥沃的
      the country's productive capacity

      该国的生产力。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Very fundamentally Marx defines productive labor by its capacity to generate capital in the form of a surplus-value.
      • At the analytical starting point, every productive process employs the primary inputs of labor and land as Henry George defined them.
      • Put that money into productive capacity, and investing in our future and investing in cutting edge technology.
      • Socialism has a comparative advantage in the area of productive efficiency.
      • Economic resiliency, productive capacity, labor talent, every one of the economist's buzzwords plays a role in war.
      • Classifying soil according to its productive capacity has some precedence in most parts of East Africa where property rates are employed.
      • If those billions of borrowed euro were diverted into productive rather than unproductive capacity what would happen?
      • Debate has ensued regarding the effects of these changes upon the productive efficiency of universities, and upon the quality of their outcomes.
      • Only by increasing the supply of land available for productive use could the landless be given greater access to it.
      • For Smith, wealth was productive capacity, not the accumulation of precious metals.
      • While they generate a return, financial assets are not themselves productive capital engaged in the actual extraction of surplus value from the working class.
      • I describe most of my recent productive activity as making sculptural or object paintings.
      • The contest between capital and labour over the fruits of economically productive activity remains the front line struggle.
      • Mobility increases the amount of productive work that each employee can deliver.
      • Overall market confidence and productive capacity can be destroyed quickly, leading to net loss of investment, employment, and output.
      • Investment in productive capacity was the prominent transmission mechanism of finance to the real economy.
      • The productive capacity of the fumigated crops not destroyed is revitalized through the intensive use of fertilizers.
      • Good governance is lacking in most countries that are unable to promote job creation, engage in productive public spending and to stimulate economic growth.
      • The companies face increasingly cutthroat competition and a growing glut in productive capacity both in Japan and globally.
      • In reality, the strength of an economy is determined by the efficiency of its productive sector, not the appetite of consumers.
    2. 1.2 Achieving a significant amount or result.
      富有成效的
      a long and productive career

      长期且富有成效的事业。

      the therapy sessions became more productive

      分阶段的治疗变得更有效了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He hasn't been able to do anything productive since he left us and he came back just in time for the birth.
      • My patrol had been pleasantly productive this evening, resulting in the apprehension of four baddies and being checked out by no less than two women.
      • There are no female figures in Swann's Way who achieve as artistically productive or as spiritually rewarding an independence as that of Lily Briscoe.
      • According to them, progress of the productive forces inevitably results in the stultification of the masses, in cultural decline, and finally in a new kind of barbarism.
      • Yet, with help, many improve over time and are eventually able to lead productive lives.
      • The result of that is productive working relationships - something that party would not know anything about.
      • This, however, does not mean that achieving a productive scholarly interactivity in a web journal is either easy or straightforward.
      • The South Zone hunter who juggles the options should be able to enjoy productive hunts during the three-day opening weekend.
      • Freelancing, even after a highly successful and productive career, was not much better unless one was a ‘celebrity’ writer and columnist.
      • The most productive route to achieving a significant across-the-board raise for architects is for us to get involved in the process of developing and building.
      • The extensive preparation phase results in very productive enactment and analysis phases.
      • This unlikely though productive pairing has resulted in what's being touted as Montreal's best outdoor skate park.
      • The entire developing world can't be invited to the G - 8 table with the expectation that a productive conversation will result.
      • The Angels haven't had a productive leadoff hitter since Tony Phillips in 1997.
      • That choice is ‘good,’ meaning essentially, productive of the desired result.
      • As sites of considerable productive value and significant social debate, I believe it is important to begin with an introduction to the gardens themselves.
      • So enclosing the commons is needed to avoid ruin, and to promote productive investments in the land.
      • Shaw and his staff proved to two national banks that the school was more productive, resulting in major gifts.
      • How, then, are we to get the student to learn the many behaviors that will provide the necessary skills to achieve a productive life?
      • Moral is low, egos are high and as a result it's not productive for the common good of the whole community.
      Synonyms
      prolific, inventive, creative
      dynamic, energetic, vigorous, effective
      useful, constructive, profitable, fruitful, gainful, valuable, effective, worthwhile, beneficial, helpful, rewarding, gratifying
    3. 1.3productive ofpredicative Producing or giving rise to.
      产生…的;引起…的
      the hotel was not productive of amusing company

      这家酒店不是有趣伙伴的产生地。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Four days prior to admission, she developed a cough productive of whitish sputum.
      • Once this kind of trust is established, the relationship between the consumer and the medical device company can be productive of real value.
      • As has been indicated, life on the frontier is productive of individualism.
      • Leaders are investing billions of dollars to make our schools more purposeful, more accountable, and more productive of powerful learning.
      • Mines in the Pangaeum mountain range were extremely productive of silver and gold.
    4. 1.4Linguistics (of a prefix, suffix, or other linguistic unit) currently used in forming new words or expressions.
      〔语言学〕能产的,有构词能力的
      many suffixes are common and productive

      许多后缀很常用,构词能力很强。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The situation characterizes the less productive affixes, such as noun-forming ity or th.
      • A prefix is productive when it contributes to the meaning of a word and can be added freely to other words.
      • Students used the highly productive suffix er rather than the less productive suffix ant to convey an agentive meaning.
      • It takes a higher degree of competence, they say, to combine words properly in productive use.
      • So, Eskimoan languages are really extraordinary in their productive word-building capability, for any root you might pick.
  • 2Medicine
    (of a cough) that raises mucus from the respiratory tract.

    〔医〕(咳嗽)生痰的;分泌黏液的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lynne, my wife, had a persistent productive cough, fever, and malaise.
    • He had a sick contact with an upper respiratory infection and productive cough for the past two weeks.
    • Signs of recurrent infection or pneumonia with productive cough, fever, and hemoptysis dominate.
    • Chest infections, productive cough, dyspnea, wheezing, and hemoptysis are common.
    • A 55 year old man presented to his general practitioner with a productive cough.

Derivatives

  • productiveness

  • noun prəˈdʌktɪvnəsprəˈdəktɪvnəs
    • Distressed by their great loss the people continued forward sullenly with panic productiveness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Any peasant might teach our economist that this fact arises from the greater productiveness of the land watered by the Rhine and the Meuse.
      • The path to this evening's productiveness started this lunch time, when I bought a printer.
      • But for many Americans he is proof that age is just a number - not a definitive measurement of one's abilities or productiveness.
      • Get off the sofa and do anything to get on the road to productiveness.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French productif, -ive or late Latin productivus, from product- 'brought forth', from the verb producere (see produce).

Definition of productive in US English:

productive

adjectiveprəˈdəktɪvprəˈdəktiv
  • 1Producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or other commodities.

    富有生产力的;多产的;富饶的;肥沃的

    the most productive employees

    最高产的雇员。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They can be grown on land that's less productive for traditional crops.
    • Of course, certain institutions are necessary to become economically productive too, but these are not necessarily political.
    • Does Clark's property system preserve incentives to make land productive?
    • In a free market, employers want the most productive work force.
    • For precision organic farming to work, we need to keep our farmers productive and unharmed.
    • In today's tight labor markets, both public and private employers will presumably benefit from being able to keep productive older employees on the job longer.
    • And savvy employers have started to realize that a happy employee is a productive one.
    • In fact, as space grew, the industry became less productive.
    • Some have managed to take an interest in their land and make it productive, but many have simply reaped the standing crop and then left the land derelict.
    • A retired North Yorkshire farmer has invented a device which could help reduce flooding risks and pollution - while keeping arable land fertile and productive.
    • A country's most productive force is its diverse strata of human resources.
    • Deforestation and overgrazing destroy productive land, while acid rain damages crops.
    • The people who work with me are able to be more productive because I put a little less baggage in their way than before.
    • White farmers would sell their land to the black community, and then help keep it productive.
    • Settling in South Dakota, Martin Eden initially focuses on transforming the prairie into productive farmland.
    • Malaysia's young, educated, and highly productive workforce remains one of the country's key attributes.
    • This makes soil more productive and able to support bigger and better crops at the lowest possible economic cost to farmers.
    • Seems like depression does benefit me, I am more productive at work.
    • My dad ran his coal mine so as to make it as productive as he possibly could.
    • Farmers who are able to be productive and prove useful to society will find us cooperative.
    • The World Wildlife Fund has released a report that assesses our ecological footprint, or the amount of productive land and sea needed to sustain current lifestyles.
    Synonyms
    fertile, fruitful, rich, fecund, high-yielding
    1. 1.1 Relating to or engaged in the production of goods, crops, or other commodities.
      富有生产力的;多产的;富饶的;肥沃的
      the country's productive capacity

      该国的生产力。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • For Smith, wealth was productive capacity, not the accumulation of precious metals.
      • The productive capacity of the fumigated crops not destroyed is revitalized through the intensive use of fertilizers.
      • Put that money into productive capacity, and investing in our future and investing in cutting edge technology.
      • Economic resiliency, productive capacity, labor talent, every one of the economist's buzzwords plays a role in war.
      • Very fundamentally Marx defines productive labor by its capacity to generate capital in the form of a surplus-value.
      • Socialism has a comparative advantage in the area of productive efficiency.
      • I describe most of my recent productive activity as making sculptural or object paintings.
      • Good governance is lacking in most countries that are unable to promote job creation, engage in productive public spending and to stimulate economic growth.
      • If those billions of borrowed euro were diverted into productive rather than unproductive capacity what would happen?
      • The contest between capital and labour over the fruits of economically productive activity remains the front line struggle.
      • Debate has ensued regarding the effects of these changes upon the productive efficiency of universities, and upon the quality of their outcomes.
      • In reality, the strength of an economy is determined by the efficiency of its productive sector, not the appetite of consumers.
      • At the analytical starting point, every productive process employs the primary inputs of labor and land as Henry George defined them.
      • Only by increasing the supply of land available for productive use could the landless be given greater access to it.
      • Overall market confidence and productive capacity can be destroyed quickly, leading to net loss of investment, employment, and output.
      • Mobility increases the amount of productive work that each employee can deliver.
      • Classifying soil according to its productive capacity has some precedence in most parts of East Africa where property rates are employed.
      • The companies face increasingly cutthroat competition and a growing glut in productive capacity both in Japan and globally.
      • While they generate a return, financial assets are not themselves productive capital engaged in the actual extraction of surplus value from the working class.
      • Investment in productive capacity was the prominent transmission mechanism of finance to the real economy.
    2. 1.2 Achieving or producing a significant amount or result.
      富有成效的
      a long and productive career

      长期且富有成效的事业。

      the therapy sessions became more productive

      分阶段的治疗变得更有效了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • So enclosing the commons is needed to avoid ruin, and to promote productive investments in the land.
      • The extensive preparation phase results in very productive enactment and analysis phases.
      • The result of that is productive working relationships - something that party would not know anything about.
      • As sites of considerable productive value and significant social debate, I believe it is important to begin with an introduction to the gardens themselves.
      • According to them, progress of the productive forces inevitably results in the stultification of the masses, in cultural decline, and finally in a new kind of barbarism.
      • Freelancing, even after a highly successful and productive career, was not much better unless one was a ‘celebrity’ writer and columnist.
      • How, then, are we to get the student to learn the many behaviors that will provide the necessary skills to achieve a productive life?
      • This unlikely though productive pairing has resulted in what's being touted as Montreal's best outdoor skate park.
      • He hasn't been able to do anything productive since he left us and he came back just in time for the birth.
      • There are no female figures in Swann's Way who achieve as artistically productive or as spiritually rewarding an independence as that of Lily Briscoe.
      • Shaw and his staff proved to two national banks that the school was more productive, resulting in major gifts.
      • Yet, with help, many improve over time and are eventually able to lead productive lives.
      • My patrol had been pleasantly productive this evening, resulting in the apprehension of four baddies and being checked out by no less than two women.
      • The most productive route to achieving a significant across-the-board raise for architects is for us to get involved in the process of developing and building.
      • The Angels haven't had a productive leadoff hitter since Tony Phillips in 1997.
      • The entire developing world can't be invited to the G - 8 table with the expectation that a productive conversation will result.
      • This, however, does not mean that achieving a productive scholarly interactivity in a web journal is either easy or straightforward.
      • That choice is ‘good,’ meaning essentially, productive of the desired result.
      • The South Zone hunter who juggles the options should be able to enjoy productive hunts during the three-day opening weekend.
      • Moral is low, egos are high and as a result it's not productive for the common good of the whole community.
      Synonyms
      prolific, inventive, creative
      useful, constructive, profitable, fruitful, gainful, valuable, effective, worthwhile, beneficial, helpful, rewarding, gratifying
    3. 1.3productive ofpredicative Producing or giving rise to.
      产生…的;引起…的
      the unconscious is limitlessly productive of dreams, myths, stories
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Once this kind of trust is established, the relationship between the consumer and the medical device company can be productive of real value.
      • Leaders are investing billions of dollars to make our schools more purposeful, more accountable, and more productive of powerful learning.
      • Mines in the Pangaeum mountain range were extremely productive of silver and gold.
      • As has been indicated, life on the frontier is productive of individualism.
      • Four days prior to admission, she developed a cough productive of whitish sputum.
    4. 1.4Linguistics (of a morpheme or other linguistic unit) currently used in forming new words or expressions.
      〔语言学〕能产的,有构词能力的
      many suffixes are common and productive

      许多后缀很常用,构词能力很强。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The situation characterizes the less productive affixes, such as noun-forming ity or th.
      • A prefix is productive when it contributes to the meaning of a word and can be added freely to other words.
      • It takes a higher degree of competence, they say, to combine words properly in productive use.
      • Students used the highly productive suffix er rather than the less productive suffix ant to convey an agentive meaning.
      • So, Eskimoan languages are really extraordinary in their productive word-building capability, for any root you might pick.
    5. 1.5Medicine (of a cough) that raises mucus from the respiratory tract.
      〔医〕(咳嗽)生痰的;分泌黏液的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Chest infections, productive cough, dyspnea, wheezing, and hemoptysis are common.
      • He had a sick contact with an upper respiratory infection and productive cough for the past two weeks.
      • Lynne, my wife, had a persistent productive cough, fever, and malaise.
      • Signs of recurrent infection or pneumonia with productive cough, fever, and hemoptysis dominate.
      • A 55 year old man presented to his general practitioner with a productive cough.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French productif, -ive or late Latin productivus, from product- ‘brought forth’, from the verb producere (see produce).

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