adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Organic farms can be as productive as industrial farming and do not damage the environment.
▪ No agreement was reached, but both sides described the meeting as productive.
▪ For John and me, this has meant curtailing even something as productive as organized sports involvement.
▪ The home team was not quite as productive.
highly
▪ Tokugawa agriculture was highly productive, and the amount levied in tax suggests that production was well above subsistence level.
▪ At one time this was a highly productive dairy region-30 ranches-one of the biggest in the country.
▪ And, work-wise, it proved to be a highly productive fortnight.
▪ Longwall mining is a highly mechanized and highly productive method of underground mining.
▪ The use of highly productive equipment means that bonus cut-off can be achieved with ease.
▪ So one could go on to many other sociologists who have been highly productive during their careers.
▪ As we move into a well-fed and highly productive era, new diseases transmitted through our food are regularly emerging.
▪ This might be high if workers were scarce or highly productive and low if they were redundant or incompetent.
less
▪ Females are less productive than this and secondary females do particularly badly out of the system.
▪ The organization has a less productive worker and the employee gets to wrestle with a series of physical and emotional problems.
▪ In general, they tend to be regarded as less productive, less adaptable and less dynamic than younger workers.
▪ Were they allowed to recover, the animals would be thinner and less productive.
▪ An ageing population is both less productive and a more costly burden on the health services.
▪ Education can make people more productive while health can only prevent them from becoming less productive.
▪ Outmigration has led to severely unbalanced social structures in many areas, with an ageing and less productive population.
more
▪ They cut costs and became more productive.
▪ It may be, in the long run, more productive to lose the battle but win the war.
▪ Therefore, improvements in health can be achieved only if existing resources are re-allocated into policies more productive of health.
▪ Everyone will be happier, and happier employees are more productive employees.
▪ Two other sources are becoming more productive of new talent. one is lawyers and the other is accountants.
▪ For the answer, we must turn to the factors that have made each labor hour more productive since the sixties.
▪ In turn the rural regions become much more productive as farmers appreciate the ever-present and growing demand for food from the urbanites.
▪ They were healthier, more productive, more innovative than workers who were consumed by jobs.
most
▪ Pegs from Lumley Bridge to the day at Chester-le-Street most productive for dace.
▪ She stayed five years, which she called the most productive of her life.
▪ Arguably, the most productive area of research into higher education over the past 20 years is that concerned with student learning.
▪ Affirmative action has been the most productive route ever for the emergence of minorities into the mainstream.
▪ That is an odd prescription from an apostle of efficiency: you pay your most productive farmers not to produce.
▪ The most productive change-oriented goals contain an inherent opposition.
▪ The research is a learning process and is most productive precisely when it changes prior views and expectations.
▪ Second, they retained capital and labor in locations which did not allow for their most productive use.
very
▪ By following a few simple guidelines it is possible to establish a very productive breeding programme.
▪ In ideas, our movement has been very productive, more than justifying its existence by this alone.
▪ I felt very guilty about it but this guilt was not very productive.
▪ Some groups are very decisive, very productive, very creative and very satisfying for their members.
▪ The second approach can be a very productive strategy in a foreign language too.
▪ New leys are usually very productive in the first two or three years.
▪ The received wisdom is that they are not very productive in drama, where we're trying to open up possible responses.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ This is the claim that industrialism had lightened the intensity of human productive activity.
▪ The government aimed to reduce further its direct role in productive activity and to continue the liberalization of the foreign trade system.
▪ The absence is too striking and consistent not to reflect basic differences in craft organization and productive activities between Harappa and Mesopotamia.
▪ In a sane world meaningless repetition of non-productive activity would be seen to be a variety of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
▪ It was Adam Smith, interestingly, who first used industry to refer to manufacturing and other productive activities.
▪ The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection.
▪ The results were predictable: the level of productive activity at the office fell off sharply.
area
▪ In fact, Dunrossness has long been considered to be the most fertile and agriculturally productive area in the whole of Shetland.
▪ Arguably, the most productive area of research into higher education over the past 20 years is that concerned with student learning.
▪ He has challenged his Democratic opponent in electorally more productive areas, such as public funding for abortions.
capacity
▪ Both building professionals and production managers are concerned with providing a working environment that optimises productive capacity.
▪ Classes emerge when the productive capacity of society expands beyond the level required for subsistence.
▪ The resulting slump left a considerable proportion of productive capacity idle.
▪ The company's current output is 40,000 units per month, which represents 90% of the company's productive capacity.
▪ The potential for inflation after 1945 was great because the productive capacity of the country had been distorted and damaged.
▪ Britain's productive capacity was falling more rapidly than at any time since the dawn of the industrial age.
▪ The first possibility is that such an increase in productive capacity is not undertaken.
efficiency
▪ Has the transfer from public to private ownership improved productive efficiency?
▪ But a low capital-gains rate leads to investment decisions based on expectations of tax avoidance rather than productive efficiency.
▪ There is an obvious connection between profit maximisation and productive efficiency.
▪ Also, although productive efficiency is the central, it is not the sole issue where these matters are concerned.
forces
▪ His conclusion was that these groups could be turned into productive forces by giving the employees a sense of being appreciated.
▪ Looking at extended reproduction, he said: But where the productive forces are increasing, the case is different.
▪ In capitalist society: The development of the productive forces is by no means a smoothly rising curve.
▪ As the productive forces develop so the struggle between classes intensifies.
investment
▪ It allows the authorities to discriminate between loans for productive investment and loans merely for consumption or speculation.
▪ Without tax finance, much economically productive investment in education would be impossible.
▪ In addition individuals' savings have been directed into house purchase, rather than into productive investment opportunities.
land
▪ Males do not go on to construct further nests as polygynous weavers of more productive lands do.
▪ No scheme will be worth much if farmers are allowed merely to give over their least productive land.
▪ Yet, worldwide, only one-and-a-half hectares of productive land is available per person.
▪ Mr Mugabe can not fail to understand the consequence of redistribution of the country's most productive land to subsistence farmers.
▪ The simple reason for that is that farmers put their most marginal and least productive land into set-aside.
life
▪ Actually it is wrong to think that your present diet will necessarily lead to a long and productive life.
▪ However, patients with either type of illness can lead productive lives.
▪ It will help you lead a long and productive life.
▪ In other words, children with phenylketonuria can and should have a normal productive life.
▪ The longer seed is allowed to form in the pods, the shorter the productive life of the plants will be.
▪ It stands little chance of living a long, happy, and productive life.
▪ In these terms, the purpose of education is to enable the individual to lead a fulfilling and productive life.
member
▪ A child in school is not a productive member of the family.
potential
▪ It also affects the productive potential of an economy.
▪ These supply constraints are not the usual physical barriers to increased output imposed by the productive potential of the economy.
▪ Huge expanses of fertile land and unlimited supplies of water give it enormous productive potential.
process
▪ Contradictions within the productive process are ignored.
▪ A crucial aspect of the productive process is the division of labour into restricted tasks.
▪ Since means of production and means of consumption normally re-enter the productive process, their consumption can be called productive consumption.
▪ And it is with these productive processes that a full sociology of culture is necessarily concerned.
▪ It is worth emphasizing that there can be significant variations, within this situation, in the productive process itself.
relationship
▪ Not withstanding these comforting words, Gerald Ford never succeeded in establishing a productive relationship with the legislative branch.
▪ And with this went the abolition of religion itself - something which was perfectly natural in view of the changed productive relationships in society.
system
▪ In contrast, there are the old crystallized forms of dependence on the State and the productive system.
▪ The capacity for science and technology should equally be related to the educational and productive systems.
▪ The state is passive in the productive system, allowing private actors to operate in a relatively unconstrained manner.
use
▪ This kind of property is capital and yields income through profit on the productive use of property.
▪ We need to make more productive use of the upper years of high school.
▪ Efficiency refers to the productive use of resources.
▪ It is of value in education to legitimize and make productive use of interests.
▪ Second, they retained capital and labor in locations which did not allow for their most productive use.
▪ Yet, in other areas, the technical resources of the military were put to far more productive uses.
work
▪ One aspect of disorganized capitalism is pressure against general welfare expenditures for those not directly engaged in productive work.
▪ More than that, Mercer figures using the ultralight instead of horses will add 10 years of productive work to his life.
▪ Some fix no real limits to the evaluation period, only stating that if used for productive work it must be registered.
▪ Yet despite a bumpy first year, most students were engaged in productive work.
▪ Thought it has a supportive county council and a productive work force, yet it has its cross to bear.
▪ And most ominously, it often has the effect of crippling the performance of formerly productive work groups.
▪ Welfare and social services Recent research has demonstrated that people with severe mental handicaps can undertake productive work, with adequate support.
▪ Meanwhile, in the rest of the room, the hum of productive work goes on.
worker
▪ They feel useless being no longer productive workers and yet having little to do at home.
▪ The organization has a less productive worker and the employee gets to wrestle with a series of physical and emotional problems.
▪ That is how young people learn to be good citizens and productive workers.
▪ As Ralph had predicted, the most productive workers began to drift off to new employers who promised greater security.
▪ Business-people are discovering that young people can be productive workers, not just cheap, low-skilled laborers.
years
▪ He kept hands in work after their most productive years and was reluctant to dismiss them when trade was slack.
▪ Thibadeau has refused to fade from the City Hall scene where he spent so many productive years.
▪ How many more productive years has this one got left?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Companies receive tax credits for buying productive equipment.
▪ Fertilizers make the land more productive.
▪ It was a very productive meeting.
▪ Studies show that if screen workers have short but frequent breaks they become much more productive.
▪ The local paper factory has been forced to become more productive or face closure.
▪ The most productive members of staff are rewarded by financial bonuses.
▪ We should do something to reward our most productive employees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A lot of otherwise productive time is being wasted debating the merits of each game.
▪ And the new order was to comprehend not only labour, not only working classes, but the productive classes.
▪ But feedback is always more productive than confrontations, and honesty is always better, and more instructive, than meaningless pleasantries.
▪ It also affects the productive potential of an economy.
▪ It has not been a productive summer for Viv Richards.
▪ It is competition which forces firms to adopt the most efficient productive techniques.
▪ Such saving is specifically used to increase productive capital and future profits.
▪ The device is expected to improve patients' quality of life by allowing them to remain active and productive.