Definition: 1. Making goods or growing crops, especially in large quantities. 2. Doing or achieving a lot.
Use 'productive' in a sentence:
1. Does one make us more productive?
2. As a rule, it is essential that the poor's productive capabilities be mobilized and the conditions for developing these human resources be improved.
3. On average, American firms remain the most productive in the world.
4. Just lengthening that second stage of full-time work may secure the financial assets needed for a 100-year life, but such persistent work will inevitably exhaust precious intangible assets such as productive skills, vitality, happiness, and friendship.
5. Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems?
6. These are much better and much more productive ways for companies to move forward on their employees' well-being.
7. Science and technology are No.1 productive forces.
8. We had a productive meeting that solved some problems.
9. Task timers are happier and more creative, but less productive.
10. For those who believe that technological progress has made the world a better place, such disruption is a natural part of rising benefits. Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more productive society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand more goods and services.
11. If we give children the best possible start in life now, they will be healthier and more productive for decades to come.
12. Drawing is a more productive way of thinking than computer-aided design.
13. But within two Mondays in the group, I was hooked, not only on knitting but also on crocheting, and I was on my way to becoming a highly productive crafter.
14. Those whose boredom pumps had been primed were more productive.
15. He is a productive writer, creating many great works in his life.
16. He was hopeful that the next round of talks would also be productive.
17. She is a very productive writer.
18. The village cadre said they did not do productive work, they just fooled around.
19. The industrial societies have been extremely productive during the last two centuries.
20. That means there's little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive.
21. It somewhat restrains architects' productive thinking.
22. Kapur applied the principle of productive failure to mathematical problem solving in three schools.
23. Our discussions were amicable and productive.
24. More productive farmers meant there was a surplus that could feed cities.
25. "If we give children the best possible start in life now, they will be healthier and more productive for decades to come."
26. It is fertile and productive.
27. The study showed that those who had worked as boys enjoyed happier and more productive lives than those who had not.
28. The learning paradox is at the heart of "productive failure".
29. It is not that productive.
30. It has enabled Americans to be extremely productive, and productivity itself is highly valued in America.
31. We need to "design for productive failure" by building it into the learning process.
32. I was sorry he had left, although I soon developed a productive relationship with his successors.
33. The actual level of intensity depends on such factors as the physical layout, population density, and productive activities of a metropolis.
34. Vitacorp, a manufacturer, wishes to make its information booth at an industry convention more productive in terms of boosting sales.
35. Too much spending on rearmament would place an insupportable burden on the nation's productive capacity.
36. Pay has risen sharply for the highly educated, and those people continue to reap rich rewards into old age because these days the educated elderly are more productive than the preceding generation.
37. Human language is productive, an open-ended communication system, whereas no other communication system has this property.
38. Instead of running round like a headless chicken use your efforts in a more productive way.
39. These natural salt marshes are among the most productive habitats in the marine environment.
40. This commercial forest is very productive and can generate good economic returns.
41. We must come to view the air, the plants and ourselves as the contributors to the preservation of life and growth, rather than a web of quantifiable objects or productive potentialities at our disposal.
42. My time spent in the library was very productive.
43. Training makes workers highly productive.
44. Within the productive sector, there was a growth of a variety of specialist craftspeople.
45. The concern seems to be that open advocates don't spend their time being as productive as possible.
46. Relations of production must conform to the level of productive forces.
47. Science and technology are part of the productive forces.
48. The learning paradox is at the heart of "productive failure", a phenomenon identified by researcher Manu Kapur.
49. More productive farmers have been able to provide cheaper food.
50. Land, labor and capital are all productive of wealth.
