Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a productive manner; by production; with abundant produce.
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- adverb In a
productive manner.
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- adverb in a productive way
Etymologies
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Examples
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Any profits decreases for businesses will more than be off sit by the simulating impact of more than 40 billions dollars on our economy and gains in productively will increase as higher skilled workers replace uneducated peons and businesses find labor saving devices, technology, machines etc. to replace labor shortages. —
Congress Faces Gas, Energy Issues - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Our hope is that the quantity and kinds of materials we've assembled, and the ways in which we've interwoven them with the play and our annotations, will allow readers to approach this site productively from a range of perspectives and to a variety of ends.
Introduction 2007
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David Halperin productively takes on the essays that most engage his own work, while Andrew Elfenbein provides thoughtful commentary to all the essays.
Introduction 2006
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The child in state care who then gets good A-levels, sails through university and works productively is a rarity.
Archive 2004-02-01 Laban 2004
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Operating efficiently and productively is a result of investment and of co-operative effort by management and employees, something that has evolved in my company and that makes us very proud.
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The foundation can redeploy capital more productively from the standpoint of the Cardinal Educational Foundation’s goals and missions.
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I’m addicted to that flash animation games right now (such as Cake Mania and Diner Dash) and my productively is nil.
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I’m addicted to that flash animation games right now (such as Cake Mania and Diner Dash) and my productively is nil.
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I’m addicted to that flash animation games right now (such as Cake Mania and Diner Dash) and my productively is nil.
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But there are limits to possessiveness, productively, which is why I chose to make that verbal correction.
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