productive employment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofproductiveandemployment
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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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employment
noun[U]
uk/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/us/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/
the fact of someone being paid to work for a company ...
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(Definition ofproductiveandemploymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These power stations will keep several thousand miners in necessaryproductiveemploymentfor a considerable period.
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It was no longer said that it was done in order that these men could go intoproductiveemployment.
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Unemployment, although falling sharply in recent months, is still high and there is a large reserve of labour to be absorbed intoproductiveemployment.
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Ifproductiveemploymentwas available, they would be in work.
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Its duties are to promote efficiency, international competitiveness and to provide and maintainproductiveemployment.
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The wartime government enabled hundreds of people to take part inproductiveemployment, many for the first time.
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Building and repairing homes will answer a pressing social need and offer opportunities for skilled andproductiveemployment.
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Then it would make good sense from every point of view that the workers should be kept inproductiveemploymentrather than becoming unemployed.
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Nothing substantial in the way of useful orproductiveemploymenthas been provided.
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At least 48 of them are men under 30 years of age who would have been useful inproductiveemployment.
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They believe that the emphasis onproductiveemploymentis sensible.
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Both of these are very laudable indeed; but full employment was confused with fullproductiveemployment.
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I am much more concerned to see people taken off social security benefits and able to support themselves throughproductiveemployment.
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If he stacked castings in a productive area, he was counted as being inproductiveemployment.
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In my judgment land settlement offers the best opportunity and chance of providingproductiveemploymentfor our workers.
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If there is to be a benefit from oil we have to make sure that the revenue is used for efficient,productiveemployment.
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We have been told that one of its roles is to provide, maintain or safeguardproductiveemployment.
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The area covered by this huge estate is deprived, desolate and decimated, with hardly one person in full-timeproductiveemployment.
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