(economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time

Usage examples of productivity.

American continent, and Maury is trying to collate falls in phytoplankton productivity across the Pacific with low-resolution pictures from European, Australian and Russian weather satellites and reports from cargo ships of sightings of strange dark patches in the Pacific Ocean.

The slicks have already destroyed about half the phytoplankton productivity in the Pacific.

It is thought that a reduction in release of methyl sulphide by phytoplankton is the cause of a serious drought along the Pacific seaboard of the American continent, and Maury is trying to collate falls in phytoplankton productivity across the Pacific with low-resolution pictures from European, Australian and Russian weather satellites and reports from cargo ships of sightings of strange dark patches in the Pacific Ocean.

The resources must be employed productively and their productivity has to grow if the business is to survive.

And if you deter productivity, whose pockets will the liberals have left to pick in order to fund their redistributionist programs?

Kalmar and Miss Dupont swiftly took care of a succession of other patients, raising the tolerance level of frustration in a watchmaker, replating the acne-pitted skin of a sensitive youth, restoring a finger lost in a machine-shop accident, and building up good-natured aggression in an ore miner whose productivity had slumped.

Suppose the span of each generation to be shortened by one-sixth, so that six take the place of five, and that the productivity of each marriage is unaltered, it follows that one-sixth more children will be brought into the world during the same time, which is roughly equivalent to increasing the productivity of an unshortened generation by that amount.

How did laborsaving machinery and enormously increased productivity impoverish the family?

Nazi Germany, between destruction and vigorous productivity, between a devastating systemic perspective and an inconspicuous-ambivalent nearsightedness on the local level.

The slicks have already destroyed about half the phytoplankton productivity in the Pacific.

CEO, Martin Schwartz, said that 10 percent to 15 percent increases in wages would not do, even when matched by productivity gains.

Acres vary in size, one of our eminent horticulturists has reminded us, measured in terms of productivity.

Since on-the-job stress was not a recognized factor, the Postal Service did nothing to prevent its managers from conducting work speedups or bullying workers to increase productivity.

Because of the hype and few side effects, Prozac is considered a miracle cure for many things: eating disorders, obsessions, compulsions, shyness, unassertiveness, poor thinking, low productivity, weak personality, low zest, lack of confidence, lack of poise, etc.

Economic values and moral virtues, as expressed in productivity of fields, mines, factories, church attendance, and obedience to the selectmen, are so easy of assessment that it is difficult to get just appraisement for those who endured everything, not for their own freedom or gain but for others' glory, and accomplished so little that could be measured in the terms of substantial, visible, tangible, economic, or ecclesiastical progress.