productive enterprise

collocation in English

meaningsofproductiveandenterprise

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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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enterprise
noun
uk
/ˈen.tə.praɪz/us
/ˈen.t̬ɚ.praɪz/
an organization, especially a business, or a difficult and important plan, especially one that will ...
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(Definition ofproductiveandenterprisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Are we going forward to a situation in which private industry, profit-making industry andproductiveenterprisewill be fully and properly rewarded?
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It is surely right and proper to put one's money into aproductiveenterprise.
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We must get the maximum man-power intoproductiveenterprise.
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Many of these people could very well be released forproductiveenterprise.
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That is all turned over toproductiveenterprise.
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They are working in conjunction with other people inproductiveenterprise, part of the fruits of whose labour is destined to be used for armaments.
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If young men arc asked on television what they propose to do, one after another they choose the social services rather thanproductiveenterprise.
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The inventor, in other words, requires to be put in touch with a largeproductiveenterprise.
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If you use up your available credit on these public works, it will not be available when it is badly wanted forproductiveenterprise.
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We are short of people to carry onproductiveenterprise.
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It is not denied that the cost of rates, being a first charge, is also a cumulative charge uponproductiveenterprise.
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It is also eminently desirable in the national interest that they should continue inproductiveenterpriseafter the war.
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Some people would allege that income tax cuts unleash a surge ofproductiveenterpriseand incentives to work effort.
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People do not want to start having business dealings with a country whose mainspring ofproductiveenterprisehas been broken.
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These are all an essential part of theproductiveenterprise.
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I was dealing with the contrast sought to be drawn between the scheme as aproductiveenterpriseand colonial development.
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The other aspect of investment is investment inproductiveenterprise.
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We have voluntarily assumed a large amount of social service, which has to be paid for out ofproductiveenterprise.
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There has been a very strong request to the banks not to allow overdrafts except in cases where aproductiveenterpriseis stimulated.
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