# productivity

Pronunciation: US say "proh-duk-TIV-i-tee" /ˌpɹɑ.dʌkˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/; UK say "prod-uk-TIV-uh-tee" /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/; AUS say "prod-uhk-TIV-uh-tee" /ˌpɹɔd.ɐkˈtɪv.ə.ti/

## Noun

1. The rate at which a standard group of workers turns out goods or services, together with their overall degree of efficiency.
   - Simple: A measure of how much a group of workers can produce in a set time, and how well they work.
   - _Economists tracked productivity across the manufacturing sector throughout the decade._
   - _The firm invested in training to boost worker productivity._
2. The quality or condition of being able to produce abundantly, grow well, or work efficiently.
   - Simple: Being good at making things, growing well, or getting a lot done.
   - _The soil's productivity made the valley ideal for farming._
   - _Remote work changed how managers think about employee productivity._
3. The rate at which crops are produced per fixed area of farmland.
   - Simple: How many crops can be grown on a piece of land of a set size.
   - _Irrigation greatly improved the productivity of the rice fields._
   - _Farmers measured productivity in bushels harvested per acre._
4. The ability to form new words from established patterns and parts, such as the suffixes -ness and -ity, and the degree to which such formation actually happens.
   - Simple: How easily a language can build new words from set patterns and word parts.
   - _Linguists noted the high productivity of '-able' in forming new adjectives._
   - _The productivity of certain prefixes varies from one period to another._

## Origin

Formed from "productive" combined with the suffix "-ity."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/productivity (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).