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/prədˈəktɪv/ /proʊdˈəktɪv/ /pərdˈəktɪv/ Listen

adjective

Productive adj.

Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products.

Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements. "And kindle with thy own productive fire." "This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit."

Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.

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Etymology of 'Productive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Productive" Quotes from Famous Books

... Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also {suit}). Spoken derisively, as in "*Management* decided that ...". 2. Mythically, a vast bureaucracy responsible for all the world's minor irritations. Hackers' satirical public notices are often signed 'The Mgt'; this ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

... in the industries would necessarily be upon the basis of the 'man-day'—the average production of an average man in an average day when working under average conditions—and in those industries not of an actual productive nature, such as 'public service,' etc., the man-day must prevail there also (being based upon the average production of all the industries served) for the reason that no man could be induced to ...

— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto

... undertaking in former times - say the construction of a great mediaeval cathedral. Almost all the work was done by human beings, with some help, of course, from domesticated animals. Under these circumstances the entire source of productive power lay in the will-energies of living beings, whose bodies had to be supplied with food, clothing and housing; and to provide these, other productive powers of a similar kind were required near the same place. Accordingly, ...

— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs

... library, however large and comprehensive, has either the space or the means to accumulate a tithe of the periodicals that swarm from a productive press, there are valid reasons why more attention should be paid by the librarian to a careful preservation of a wise selection of the best of all this current literature. The modern newspaper and other periodical publications afford the fullest and truest, and ...

— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford

... the law of nature that man and woman should unite in matrimony, what rule of selection may we establish which, in all cases, shall be productive of agreeable association, financial success and such physiological conditions as will result ...

— How to Become Rich - A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony • William Windsor

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