1.
[syn: productiveness, productivity]
2. (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Productivity \Pro`duc*tiv"i*ty\, n.
The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.
--Emerson.
[1913 Webster]
Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power,
the productivity. --Coleridge.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
productivity
n 1: the quality of being productive or having the power to
produce [syn: productiveness, productivity] [ant:
unproductiveness]
2: (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units
produced to the labor per unit of time