productivity.

1. The amount of output produced relative to the inputs used, under a specified measure.

2. The capacity or degree of producing work, creations or useful results.

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Words that belong together

• labor productivity
• productivity growth

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Labor productivity rose when the same output required fewer hours.

Productivity growth was measured separately from the expansion caused by employing more workers.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: economic explanation, resource analysis, incentive analysis, comparison. Disciplines: economics, business, social science. Commonness: moderately common.