productivity

Noun

productivity (usually uncountable, plural productivities)

1. (usually) The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient.

   Synonyms:

   productiveness

2. (usually) The rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers; those workers' degree of efficiency.
   • You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
   • Productivity growth has disappointed across the western world since the 2008 financial crisis. But the UK has notched a significantly worse performance than many of its peers on this metric of output for each hour of work – which is a vital driver of economic growth, wages and living standards.2025 October 31, Richard Partington, “‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
3. (usually) The rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land.
4. (usually) 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.