Synonym: creative, fertile, fruitful, gainful, inventive, profitable, prolific, yielding. Antonym: unproductive. Similar words: productivity, production, product, introduction, produce, producer, protective, introduce. Meaning: [prə'dʌktɪv] adj. 1. producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly) 2. having the ability to produce or originate 3. yielding positive results 4. marked by great fruitfulness.
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151. Since means of production and means of consumption normally re-enter the productive process, their consumption can be called productive consumption.
152. And, work-wise, it proved to be a highly productive fortnight.
153. The use of highly productive equipment means that bonus cut-off can be achieved with ease.
154. Without tax finance, much economically productive investment in education would be impossible.
155. The residents of both states are denied a chance to find productive labor in all fifty states.
156. This is the claim that industrialism had lightened the intensity of human productive activity.
157. But your job is not to deter people from having meetings, merely to ensure that the necessary ones are fully productive.
158. By following a few simple guidelines it is possible to establish a very productive breeding programme.
159. Looking at extended reproduction, he said: But where the productive forces are increasing, the case is different.
160. In contrast, there are the old crystallized forms of dependence on the State and the productive system.
161. The state was by no means a constituent part of the productive relations, which economic theory has been called upon to study.
162. Organic farms can be as productive as industrial farming and do not damage the environment.
163. Nor did this luxury stimulate local production: it was wasted on foreign imports which could never become productive at home.
164. Each of the other roles is more productive: The traveller is a stranger whose curiosity can enrich the sense of community.
165. Water conditions in lakes, reservoirs and streams have stabilized at high, productive levels.
166. The collective experience of achieving this success validates the beliefs on which productive courses of action are based.
167. It is of value in education to legitimize and make productive use of interests.
168. The first possibility is that such an increase in productive capacity is not undertaken.
169. The reason why it is more productive in these middle years is simple.
170. We are going to make sure that loans we get go to the productive sector.
171. The Raiders finally abandoned hope of turning Ismail into a productive wide receiver.
172. And with this went the abolition of religion itself - something which was perfectly natural in view of the changed productive relationships in society.
173. At one time this was a highly productive dairy region-30 ranches-one of the biggest in the country.
174. But the mid-west's real achievement has been to make its old businesses, particularly manufacturing[sentence dictionary], much more productive.
175. Thought it has a supportive county council and a productive work force, yet it has its cross to bear.
176. You can form a series of strategic and productive alliances with people who have different specialties.
177. In this respect at least, Mozart resembles his comparably productive contemporary Joseph Haydn.
178. They could both accept that the upper class should be defined, first and foremost, by its possession of productive capital.
179. Actually it is wrong to think that your present diet will necessarily lead to a long and productive life.
180. The desirability of close, productive, harmonious relationships between education and business is no longer questioned.
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