means of production

English

Etymology

In English by 1733 in Peter Shaw, The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, Vol III, p. 52, noted: "Observe, what has been fully explained in the Novum Organum; that to discover the Causes of Things, is finding the Means to produce them, whence Causes, and the Means of Production are convertible terms."

Noun

means of production pl (plural only)

1. (economics, Marxism) The combination of the means of labor, such as machines, tools, and equipment, and the subject of labor used by workers to make products.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) MOP

   Hyponyms: means of labor, subject of labor

   Coordinate term: means of exchange

Translations

combination of the means of labor and the subject of labor

• Arabic: وَسَائِل الْإِنْتَاج pl (wasāʔil al-ʔintāj)
• Catalan: mitjans de producció m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生產資料／生产资料 (zh) (shēngchǎn zīliào), 生產工具／生产工具 (zh) (shēngchǎn gōngjù)

• Danish: produktionsmiddel c
• Esperanto: produktadrimedoj pl
• Finnish: tuotantoväline (fi)
• French: moyens de production (fr) m pl
• Georgian: საწარმო საშუალებები (sac̣armo sašualebebi)
• German: Produktionsmittel n
• Hungarian: termelőeszköz (hu)
• Italian: mezzi di produzione m pl
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• Latvian: ražošanas llīdzekļi m pl
• Mongolian: үйлдвэрлэлийн хэрэгсэл (üjldverleliin xeregsel)
• Polish: środki produkcji (pl) nvir
• Portuguese: meios de produção (pt) m pl
• Romanian: mijloace de producție (ro) n pl
• Russian: сре́дство произво́дства (ru) (srédstvo proizvódstva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: srèdstva proizvòdnje f pl

• Spanish: medios de producción m pl
• Swedish: produktionsmedel (sv) n
• Vietnamese: tư liệu sản xuất (vi)