productivities
- 1Plural of productivity.
Economists charted the productivities of several sectors over the decade.
The study measured labor productivities across a dozen developing economies.
Note
A plural that exists because measurement makes things countable. Productivity usually resists counting, but once it names a rate, such as output per worker or crops per area of land, separate rates can be compared side by side: the productivities of different sectors or fields. Linguists can compare suffixes such as -ness and -ity the same way. For general talk about being efficient or fruitful, keep the singular.
productivities is a form of productivity
productivity, noun: The rate at which a standard group of workers turns out goods or services, together with their overall degree of efficiency. Full entry
- Forms
- productivityproductivities plural
- Spelling
- productivity → productivities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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