0 resulting in or providing a large amount or supply of something:
In order to turn the deserts into fertile and productive land, engineers built an 800-mile canal.
He had an amazingly productive five years in which he managed to write four novels.
We had a very productive meeting - I felt we solved lots of problems.
Theirs was a very productive partnership.
The English-speaking children's productive vocabularies ranged from 2 to 31 words.
1 causing or providing a good result or a large amount of something:
2 producing a large number of goods, crops, profit, etc. or doing a lot of work:
The negotiations were reported to have been "very productive."
a productive day's work
a productive meeting/conversation/discussion You can't have a productive discussion if people aren't listening to each other.
4 relating to production of goods:
The interview would have been more productive if the questions had been framed more precisely.
Perhaps her most productive period was her five-year stint as a foreign correspondent in New York.
Team work at its best results in a synergy that can be very productive.
They are about half as productive as private farms.
First, child time is not as productive and so will not reduce adult's time one for one.
Only very recently has legislation on land taxes been changed to legally recognize standing forest as productive use.
The main lesson we have drawn from our studies is that efforts to contain growth may be counter-productive, even from a narrow environmental perspective.
By transferring control of the productive resource to the host country, the agent will have stronger economic incentives not to misrepresent its private information.
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