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productive

If a person is productive, they are able to achieve great results from doing something.

productive

producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly) productive farmland his productive years a productive collaboration yielding positive results (= generative) having the ability to produce or originate generative power generative forces (= fat, fertile, rich) marked by great fruitfulness fertile farmland a fat land a productive vineyard rich soil

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The author is seventy, but he's no less productive than he was twenty years ago.
This factory's productive capacity is 250 cars a week.
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
The author is seventy but he's no less productive than he was twenty years ago.
You should spend less time complaining and more time doing something productive.
Productive thinking and creativity are unthinkable without imagination.
Multi-tasking can lead to being less productive.
Tom is productive.
Name-calling is never productive.
I would be a lot more productive if I didn't waste time on the internet.
You are really very productive today.
Tom was productive.
This is completely counter-productive.

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What was once a happy, productive region, is today, barren waste.
The strike isn't a mother lode, but it's productive.
We want you to be happy, as well as productive.
While some of us were snug in our bed, other more productive citizens were up toiling in the vineyards of beautiful letters.
A few stones have been knocked down but our country's strong, united, determined and more productive than ever.
Scientist suddenly becoming non-productive, eh?
Very productive.
Their original purpose was to adapt this planet for productive use. They'll begin that work again.
The most productive planet in the entire galaxy. Hm hmm.
I brought in new machinery and today it's the most productive in the galaxy.
Productive energy is too precious to risk wasting it.
Anti-productive legislation.
It's satisfying for me to see that the people are enjoying themselves. as compensation for their long days. of deeply productive work. for the prosperity of our national economy.
The fruit of your loins will enable the productive citizenry of Topeka to overcome metabolic changes resulting from months of subterranean living allow it to keeps its leadership in the drive through to make this in God's own image.
Diaries can be very productive.
Our Raymond will remain an outwardly normal, productive, sober and respected member of the community.
Why can't he kill some non-productive person on the outside?
We want you to be happy as well as productive.
Philosophical, perhaps, but hardly productive.
May it be long, healthy and productive.
Productive as a breeder?
It was a productive day, buddy. You act like a natural cheat.
It may bring her loved ones some measure of comfort to remember that this woman lived a good life, and a productive life.
Madam Goren was a convenient and unusually productive source of such information and evidence.
This should be a productive area.
WOULD MAKE YOU MORE PRODUCTIVE. SO, I CAN'T FIND ROSS, AND THE CLIENT HE BOOKED SAYS SHE CAN'T MAKE IT HERE.
My dear sir, surely you can apply your energies to something more productive.
It seems the married couples are the most productive.
I think you'll make it because you're productive.
I like productive people.
Their original purpose was to adapt this planet for productive use.
They are non-productive.
The condition of the star. is the specialization of the apparently lived, the object of the identification. with apparent life without depth, that should compensate for the fragmentation of productive. specializations actually lived.
The maturing of productive forces. cannot guarantee such power, even by the detour of increased dispossession that it brings.
Don't worry. He's very productive.

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A simplified CAP would encourage cleaner, more productive, and efficient agriculture.
They could make a real contribution to cleaner, more productive, and efficient farming and land use, while addressing social needs.
Indeed, as we have seen in some Andean countries, it can be counter-productive.
None of this will be possible unless Afghanistan's young males are disarmed and given productive work.
Usually, low interest rates lead firms to borrow more to invest more, and greater indebtedness is matched by more productive assets.
That's the equivalent of adding productive power equal to a quarter of the economy of India - and adding it every year.
As the world's leading-edge economy, America faces the hardest work in ensuring growth, for it must create - not only copy and adapt - new technologies, better forms of capital, and more productive business organizations.
So a company that fires all its workers and then ships from stock can look very productive - until it runs outs of stock.
In the end, policymakers must remember that whether or not the US and Europe avoid a lost decade depends on their ability to retain productive vitality in their economies, not simply on short-term demand-stimulation measures.
On the contrary, a shakeout of less productive jobs, for example, would at first raise unemployment, increase government outlays, and reduce private spending.
And, because demand is depressed, credit is in short supply, and barriers to enterprise are often high, it will take longer than usual for businesses to create more productive jobs.
Measures must move beyond overall social needs to bolster progress in productive job-creating and income-generating sectors.
Perhaps they may decide that violence is counter-productive and carries its own penalties, and may then follow the Kurdish example of curbing violence, which would help put Iraq together again without recourse to permanent repression.
Argentina has much going for it: widespread literacy, a healthy population, a highly productive agricultural economy, and a strong natural resource base.
Proper access to credit for productive segments is an integral part of a well-functioning economy.
Trading in derivatives by investment banks, hedge funds, and other market participants, reaps huge profits for traders while depriving the real economy of productive investment and job creation.
One productive avenue would be to follow up on one of the recommendations of the High Level Panel that was endorsed by Annan; namely, that all UN members go on record declaring that terrorism has no place in today's world.
Souley Madi is one of the most productive cotton growers in the Badjengo Cameroon, an area where the lush forests of central Africa give way to the semi-arid Sahel.
Managers' increased focus on maximizing shareholder value won many adherents when the idea was introduced in the 1980's: the impersonal discipline of financial markets would force companies to become more productive and innovative.

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