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productivity in English:

1. fertility


The presence of organic matter in the soil is fundamental in maintaining its fertility.
Chemotherapy can often result in fertility issues
fertility treatment
I'm taking a fertility drug.

2. efficiency


The Director's appraisal of our efficiency was positive overall.
Office managers expect accuracy, efficiency, and dedication.
Charles Moore created Forth in an attempt to increase programmer productivity without sacrificing machine efficiency.
That makes for efficiency.
efficiency = performance results
Everyone strives for efficiency but few seem to attain it.
Efficiency is the dominant idea in business.
Our firm is a giant one, and there are some rules and regulations, which should be revised or rescinded to reduce red tape and increase efficiency.
Don't confuse "efficacy" with "efficiency".
The efficiency of Kemil's team is not the best.
she was at the sports center where the athlete checked her efficiency.
I don't mention the high energy efficiency of these LED light bulbs.
Or busied herself in her garden, cutting things down with frightening efficiency.
It seems that the efficiency of controls could be improved in certain areas.
Efficiency is defined as the ability to produce something with a minimum amount of effort. An example of efficiency is a reduction in the number of workers needed to make a car.

3. amount produced in certain time



4. inefficiency


inefficiency of the school system
Too many people working on the same project can lead to inefficiency.

5. product


Barley is our main product.
If the quality of your product meets with our customer's approval, we will place regular orders.
When we started out, we realized that if we didn't have a good product, we wouldn't succeed.
If you compare our product with others, you'll see ours is far better in quality.
Our new product development efforts must be done from the end user's viewpoint.
A product has been launched that uses the power from the USB to keep hot drinks warm.
You have our permission to include our software on condition that you send us a copy of the final product.
Gross national product is a nation's total output of goods and services as measured in monetary value.
Any industrial property rights relating to the Product Specification shall belong to ABC Inc.
He was ordered, by his superior, to write up a proposal for a new product before the day is out.
Please order this product by February 15, and we will be able to deliver it before March 15.
Consumers are becoming more suspicious of advertising claims about products that they buy.
A piece of railway in use today is therefore the product of a long series of decisions reached on many different grounds, at different times.
The work of art, I decided, was the final product of human activity, and the final justification for all the misery, the endless toil and the frustrated strivings of humanity.
Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

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