productive activity

collocation in English

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productive
adjective
uk
/prəˈdʌk.tɪv/us
/prəˈdʌk.tɪv/
resulting in or providing a large amount or supply ...
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activity
noun
uk
/ækˈtɪv.ə.ti/us
/ækˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
the situation in which a lot of things are happening or people are ...
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(Definition ofproductiveandactivityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That is, merchants' intermediation activity crowds out theirproductiveactivity.
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This is true both with regard toproductiveactivityand its recollection.
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A third group of measures pertained to the reorganization ofproductiveactivityby gender.
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In particular, we show that when the initial distribution of endowments becomes uniform the volume ofproductiveactivityvanishes.
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Instead, he wished to renew art in a socialist, even communist, sense as the paradigm of free,productiveactivity.
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The public sector has gradually lost influence in theproductiveactivityof most developed economies since 1960.
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Gerontologists are addressing the question ofproductiveactivitythrough research on retirement and on various domains of unpaid work.
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How can they all undertakeproductiveactivity?
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Thus, those with several children would get a higher wage than those with fewer or no family responsibilities even when theirproductiveactivitywas identical.
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This summary then sets off a chain of demands from present production for capital that is used inproductiveactivitythe following year.
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The informants'productiveactivitymay account for the tendencies observed among the second generation; they are fully integrated into the labor market.
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But as the century wore on the rapid increase of wealth permitted the wives of prosperous men to withdraw from all forms ofproductiveactivity.
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The authors also identified related issues that warranted policy attention : quality of life and maintenance of autonomy, involvement inproductiveactivityand securing financial wellbeing after retirement.
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Could thisproductiveactivityactually be interpreted as a material relationship between the genders, the finished cloth ultimately representing a combination of both masculine and feminine crafts?
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The model sought to maximize the income received fromproductiveactivity(lumber extraction) restricted by a biodiversity index depending on the number of individuals of each species.
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The lyrics may add a contribution of their own, or the two components may potentiate each other's effects, or inspire a listener to spontaneousproductiveactivityby singing.
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The variable patterns ofproductiveactivityamong people aged in the fifties and sixties converged towards a core of home-based productivity, with comparatively little variation among octogenarians.
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From 1951 to 1954 there was a tremendous increase in the amount ofproductiveactivityavailable.
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The concentration ought to be on the mostproductiveactivityproducing the quickest results.
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A high and stable level ofproductiveactivityand employment should bring advantages to every class.
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In my view, another field for jointproductiveactivitylies within industry itself.
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We must try to increase ourproductiveactivityso far as we possibly can.
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The distribution of resources has moved from infrastructure towardsproductiveactivity.
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Through its three main objectives, it would extend the idea of co-operativeproductiveactivity.
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