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productive
/pɹəˈdʌktɪv/
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What does productive mean?
adjective
- Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
- Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
- Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
More meanings (4)
adjective
- Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
- Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
- Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
- A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x.
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IPA pronunciation
/pɹəˈdʌktɪv/
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No one is ignorant of the difficulties that are met with in the conversion of untilled land into arable and productive land.
There is no doubt that mixed marriages of the white with the yellow races will be productive of good to both sides.
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The dress of women goes even farther than that of men in the way of demonstrating the wearer's abstinence from productive employment.
All must share in the productive work of this "new beginning" and all must share in the bounty of a revived economy.
In addition, according to productive difficulties, it may be necessary to undertake comprehensive and very expensive research on half-scale methods for production.