HOW TO PRONOUNCE
productivity
/ˌpɹoʊdəkˈtɪvəti/
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5 syllables · Stress on syllable 3
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“The team discussed ways to improve productivity.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does productivity mean?
noun
- The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient.
- The rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers; those workers' degree of efficiency.
- The rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land.
More meanings (1)
noun
- The ability to form new words using established patterns and discrete linguistic elements, such as the derivational affixes -ness and -ity; the degree to which such formation happens.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌpɹoʊdəkˈtɪvəti/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Other dictionary pronunciations
/ˌpɹoʊdʌkˈtɪvəti//ˌpɹɑdʌkˈtɪvəti/
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Eastern Germany's share of all-German GDP is only about 7%, and eastern productivity is just 30% that of the west.
If humus declines, the entire soil ecology runs down and with it, soil tilth and the health and productivity of plants.
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Hence, a certain measure of transformation of terrestrial surface, of suppression of natural, and stimulation of artificially modified productivity becomes necessary.
In ease of handling, productivity, certainty of crop-lasting quality, they far surpass the soils of the countries in which scientific agriculture was founded.
The objection which some feel to Socialism and Anarchism alike on this ground cannot be upheld in view of the possible productivity of labor.