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{
"term": "productive",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "making goods or growing crops, especially in large quantities",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "**highly productive** farming land"
},
{
"text": "productive workers"
},
{
"text": "The aim was to maximize the machine’s productive capacity."
},
{
"text": "The bush must be pruned to remain productive."
}
],
"topics": ["Farming"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "prove", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "doing or achieving a lot",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a productive meeting"
},
{
"text": "My time spent in the library was very productive."
},
{
"text": "I just wish he would do something productive with his life."
},
{
"text": "Internet sources have proved extremely productive."
},
{
"text": "It makes them feel productive even if it is not a paying job."
}
],
"synonyms": "fruitful",
"topics": ["Success"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "prove", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "resulting in something or causing something",
"sensetop": "productive of something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a play productive of the strongest emotions"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/prəˈdʌktɪv/",
"audio": "pr/productive/productive__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/prəˈdʌktɪv/",
"audio": "pr/productive/productive__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from French productif, -ive or late Latin productivus, from product- ‘brought forth’, from the verb producere, from pro- ‘forward’ + ducere ‘to lead’."
}