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# productivity

«productivity» in Mova's school dictionary: **How much work, goods or results someone or something…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (productivity, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) How much work, goods or results someone or something produces in a certain time: «Productivity rose when the new machines came.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/productivity/#m1)

2) The quality of being productive, getting a lot done. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/productivity/#m2)

3) (science) How much plant or animal life a place produces, like a field or a lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/productivity/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and money lessons productivity compares output with time or workers: more done per hour means higher productivity. In everyday life it is about using time well. In geography a farm's productivity is how much food it grows. Phrases: «high productivity», «boost productivity», «productivity per hour».

### examples

- The factory's productivity doubled with new robots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/productivity/#x1)
- Short breaks can improve your productivity when you study. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/productivity/#x2)
- Good soil increases the productivity of the farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/productivity/#x3)
- My productivity drops when I'm tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/productivity/#x4)
- The ocean near the coast has high productivity because of plankton. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/productivity/#x5)
- Workers asked for more pay because productivity had gone up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/productivity/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: no plural. Adjective: productive. Maths: productivity = output ÷ input (for example, 60 toys made in 3 hours = 20 toys per hour). Being busy is not the same as being productive.

### In the corpora

- [Productivity is how much is made per worker; investment is spending now to get more later.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «productivity» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/productivity/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.