productive potential

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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potential
noun[U]
uk
/pəˈten.ʃəl/us
/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
someone's or something's ability to develop, achieve, ...
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(Definition ofproductiveandpotentialfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If the government's objective is to realise theproductivepotentialof an under-utilised labour supply, this seems a very high price to pay.
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In this vivid analysis of the present situation the images of knowledge are invoked anew to unfold their subversive butproductivepotential.
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Beyond this basic loss of futureproductivepotentialdue to soil erosion, the three studies differ in how they model soil erosion's influence on other aspects of their model.
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Humankind has adapted and enhanced theproductivepotentialof traditional (annual) grains for centuries and it may be unfair to demand equal production potential from the newly proposed perennial systems.
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We want to see an increase inproductivepotential, productivity and growth of output.
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It is no use hoping that the credit squeeze will work without doing something positive about investment to improve the margin ofproductivepotential.
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Our industrial andproductivepotentialneeds building up and reconditioning.
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That must be related to what is happening to theproductivepotentialof the economy.
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These facts are not revealed in the unemployment figures; and they all add up to a loss ofproductivepotential.
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Estimates of the growth ofproductivepotentialsince then depend on the interpretation of movements in output, employment, etc.
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But are we ever likely to succeed in developing our fullproductivepotentialif large sections of the community regard profits with suspicion and hostility?
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The growth ofproductivepotentialcan be estimated only with considerable uncertainty.
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That is of vital importance if we are to raise the level ofproductivepotentialin this country.
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I do not accept that this is the extent of ourproductivepotential.
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The under-utilised buildings and capital equipment will increasingly be incapable of achieving their fullproductivepotentialif they are not used.
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Productivepotentialis one of the main elements in the calculation of this rate of growth.
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The economic purpose is, by achieving a more even and therefore a higher level of employment, to exploit ourproductivepotentialto the full.
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The increase has been far greater than any otherproductivepotentialor power of the economy.
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Thatproductivepotentialis getting less and less, because manufacturing industry is causing a spiral of contraction and decline.
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