overall productivity

collocation in English

meaningsofoverallandproductivity

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overall
adverb[before noun]
adjective
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈrɔːl/
us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈɑːl/
in general rather than in particular, or including all the people or things in a particular group ...
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productivity
noun[U]
uk
/ˌprɒd.ʌkˈtɪv.ə.ti/
us
/ˌproʊ.dəkˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
the rate at which a company or country makes goods, usually judged in connection with the number of people and the amount of materials necessary to produce ...
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(Definition ofoverallandproductivityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Is he talking about labour productivity, or aboutoverallproductivity?
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But it is not only necessary to increase theoverallproductivity.
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This was the fourth successive week in which the industry'soverallproductivityrecord had been broken.
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If anything, the inclusion of putatively unproductive -ion derivatives has led to a potential decrease in theoverallproductivityof -ion derivatives.
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Similarly, theoverallproductivityover the period of the experiment was highest with the integrated control treatment using soyabean.
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Managerials manage knowledge by allocating people so that they maximize theoverallproductivityof their knowledge.
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To enhance theoverallproductivityand its efficiency, one of the important issues is the optimization of some performance measures subject to the maximum capacity of actuators.
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One way of interpreting ai is to regard it as a countryspecific intercept that captures the agro-ecological and institutional factors that influence theoverallproductivitydevelopment of the country.
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To increase theoverallproductivityand its efficiency, it is required to move the object as fast as possible using the maximum capacity of actuators of robots.
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This will have contributed towards cost control andoverallproductivityin the manufacturing sector.
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The tragedy is that even nowoverallproductivityis back only to the 1979 level.
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He also announced that, recently,overallproductivityin the coal industry had created all-time records.
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Most people would say that, in terms ofoverallproductivityand not merely in terms of manufacturing productivity, the productivity miracle is over.
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Here too it is my goal, under the 'value for money' maxim, to promote theoverallproductivityof the committee through a variety of measures.
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Such purposes as the higheroverallproductivityof the country and improvement of living standards may mean greater energy use rather than less.
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The closure will reduce surplus capacity in the corporation's cold-rolling activities and thereby increaseoverallproductivityand improve the financial performance of the corporation.
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That is why ouroverallproductivityperformance, taken across the economy as a whole, is lagging behind—measured in level terms—what is happening elsewhere.
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