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pro·duc·tive  (pr-dktv, pr-)
adj.
1. Producing or capable of producing.
2. Producing abundantly; fertile. See Synonyms at fertile.
3. Yielding favorable or useful results; constructive.
4. Economics Of or involved in the creation of goods and services to produce wealth or value.
5. Effective in achieving specified results; originative: policies productive of much harm.
6. Medicine
a. Producing mucus or sputum: a productive cough.
b. Forming new tissue: a productive inflammation.
7. Linguistics
a. Of or relating to the linguistic skills of speaking and writing.
b. Of or relating to a linguistic element or rule that can be used to form further examples of a particular feature or pattern. The English past tense suffix -ed is productive since it continues to be added to new verbs to form the past tense.

pro·ductive·ly adv.
pro·ductive·ness n.

productive [prəˈdʌktɪv]
adj
1. producing or having the power to produce; fertile
2. yielding favourable or effective results
3. (Economics) Economics
a.  producing or capable of producing goods and services that have monetary or exchange value productive assets
b.  of or relating to such production the productive processes of an industry
4. (postpositive; foll by of) resulting in productive of good results
5. (Linguistics / Grammar) denoting an affix or combining form used to produce new words
productively  adv
productiveness  n

productive


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The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.
The apportionment, in the first instance, and the progressive extinguishment afterward, would be alike productive of ill-humor and animosity.
Now a terrible fall, averted in such fashion, was productive of shock.
 
 
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