productivity

English

Etymology

productive +‎ -ity

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɑ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/, [ˌpɹɑ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ɾi], /ˌpɹoʊ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/, [ˌpɹoʊ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ɾi]}

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹoʊdʌkˈtɪvɪti/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɔd.akˈtɪv.ə.ti/, [ˌpɹɔd.akˈtɪv.ə.ɾi]

Noun

productivity (usually uncountable, plural productivities)

1. The state of being productive, fertile or efficient.
2. The rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers.

   You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

3. The rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land.
4. (linguistics) The ability to form new words using established patterns and discrete linguistic elements, as derivational affixes -ness and -ity.

Synonyms

• productiveness (less common)

Derived terms

• bioproductivity
• counterproductivity
• nonproductivity
• semiproductivity
• underproductivity

 

Translations

state of being productive

• Arabic: إنْتَاجِيَّة f (ʔintājiyya)
• Armenian: արդյունավետություն (hy) (ardyunavetutʻyun)
• Catalan: productivitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生產力／生产力 (zh) (shēngchǎnlì)

• Czech: produktivita f
• Dutch: vruchtbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: produktiveco
• Finnish: tuottavuus (fi), tuotteliaisuus (fi); hedelmällisyys (fi) (fertility); tehokkuus (fi) (efficiency)
• French: productivité (fr)
• German: Produktivität (de) f, Leistungsfähigkeit (de) f
• Greek: παραγωγικότητα (el) f (paragogikótita)
• Irish: táirgiúlacht f, bisiúlacht f
• Italian: produttività (it) f
• Japanese: 生産性 (seisansei)
• Khmer: ផលិតភាព (pho lit pheap)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: produktivitet m

  Nynorsk: produktivitet m

• Polish: produktywność (pl) f
• Portuguese: produtividade (pt) f
• Romanian: productivitate (ro) f
• Russian: производи́тельность (ru) f (proizvodítelʹnostʹ), продукти́вность (ru) f (produktívnostʹ)
• Spanish: productividad (es) f
• Tagalog: pagkamalalangin
• Thai: ผลิตภาพ (th) (pà-lìt-dtà-pâap)

rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers

• Armenian: արտադրողականություն (hy) (artadroġakanutʻyun)
• Finnish: tuottavuus (fi); joutuisuus
• Polish: produktywność (pl) f
• Romanian: productivitate (ro) f
• Russian: производи́тельность (ru) (proizvodítelʹnostʹ)
• Tagalog: pagkamalalangin

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

• Armenian: բերքատվություն (hy) (berkʻatvutʻyun)
• Finnish: satoisuus (fi)
• Tagalog: pagkamalalangin

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} produktiwiteit
• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} produktivitet (sq) m
• Asturian: ^{(please verify)} productividá f
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} produktibitate
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} productiviteit (nl) f
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} produktiviteet
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} produtividade (gl) f
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} produktivitas (id)
• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} produktibidad
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} prodüktivite (tr)
• Yiddish: ^{(please verify)} פּראָדוקטיוויטעט f (produktivitet)