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/pɹədˈʌktɪv/
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[ US /pɝˈdəktɪv, pɹəˈdəktɪv, pɹoʊˈdəktɪv/ ]
[ US /pɝˈdəktɪv, pɹəˈdəktɪv, pɹoʊˈdəktɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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marked by great fruitfulness
rich soil
fertile farmland
a productive vineyard
a fat land -
having the ability to produce or originate
generative power
generative forces -
producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
his productive years
productive farmland
a productive collaboration - yielding positive results
How To Use productive In A Sentence
- Improved safety measures in cars can be counterproductive as they encourage people to drive faster.
- Organizing your finances and time helps you become more productive and responsive and ensures you avoid unnecessary pitfalls, such as incurring wasteful late fees. AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS
- Russian knapweed is a problem in ranges and pastures in the western United States, where it grows up to 4 feet tall and takes over otherwise productive land.
- Perhaps her most productive period was her five-year stint as a foreign correspondent in New York.
- Which of the following reproductive structures is incorrectly matched with the group in which it is found? a. zygospore - zygomycetes Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
- It was Adam Smith, interestingly, who first used industry to refer to manufacturing and other productive activities.
- In this respect at least, Mozart resembles his comparably productive contemporary Joseph Haydn.
- Mr Mugabe can not fail to understand the consequence of redistribution of the country's most productive land to subsistence farmers.
- Lacking auditory and visual cues, the e-mail message or newsgroup post can be productively ambiguous in tone.
- This is just a short note to wish you all a very successful, productive and prosperous New Year.
