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Definition of Productive

1. Adjective. Producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly). "A productive collaboration"

2. Adjective. Having the ability to produce or originate. "Generative forces"

3. Adjective. Yielding positive results.

4. Adjective. Marked by great fruitfulness. "Rich soil"

Definition of Productive

1. a. 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.

Definition of Productive

1. Adjective. Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile ¹

2. Adjective. yielding good or useful results; constructive ¹

3. Adjective. Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services ¹

4. Adjective. (context: linguistics of an affix or word construction rule) consistently applicable to any of an open set of words ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Productive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Productive

productible production production cost production line production model production order production record production value production values productionable

productional productionally productions productisation productisations productive productively productiveness productivism productivisms

productivist productivists productivities productivity productization productizations productize productized productizes productress

Literary usage of Productive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"From this interpretation of the terms, it would seem to follow that all labor belongs to the productive class. If not only the butcher and the baker are in ..."

2. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1911)
"From this interpretation of the terms, it would seem to follow that all labor belongs to the productive class. If not only the butcher and the baker are in ..."

3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1908)
"HE term productive scholarship is used advisedly. There are not a few who maintain that this term is wholly inappropriate as applied to work actually ..."

4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Very productive. variation in this respect, the problem of producing resistant varieties of good quality appears relatively simple. ..."

5. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by John Atkinson Hobson (1902)
"Productive Economies of the Large Business. § 2. Competitive Economies of the Large Business. § 3. Intenser Competition of the few Large Businesses. § 4. ..."

6. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by John Atkinson Hobson (1901)
"Productive Economies of the Large Business. § 2. Competitive Economies of the Large Business. § 3. Intenser Competition of the few Large Businesses. § 4. ..."

7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1819)
"V. Dr. Purves on All Classes productive of National Rise of Prices. — The productive theory, as Mr. Gray and Dr. Purves term their view of society, ..."

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