productive work
collocation in Englishmeaningsofproductiveandwork
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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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work
noun
uk/wɜːk/us/wɝːk/
an activity, such as a job, that a person uses physical or mental effort to do, usually ...
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(Definition ofproductiveandworkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As described earlier, some foraging bands maintain norms of widespread meat sharing, contingent on the contribution of some meaningfulproductiveworkthat may benefit others.
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This is an unfortunate oversight, as muchproductiveworkhas been done on this topic that would have been appropriate to include here.
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The time endowment is entirely allocated toproductivework.
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For older women, their social and physical reproductive roles are even clearer since few are engaged inproductivework.
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Drawing on their own experiences, they focused more on women's unpaid work in the home than theirproductiveworkoutside the home.
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They could share out their social reproductive work as well as theirproductiveworkin small-scale cottage industries, with other relatives sharing the same houseyard.
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The expectations of the two generations of women are therefore markedly different with reference to both social reproductive tasks andproductivework.
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Although the older generation regards social reproductive tasks as their main role in society, they have an ambivalent attitude towardsproductiveworkamong the women of today.
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Prigatano70 suggested that neuropsychological rehabilitation should consist of five elements: cognitive rehabilitation, psychotherapy, a therapeutic milieu, aproductiveworktrial, and family involvement.
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Yes, we should like more prisoners to be engaged inproductivework.
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Women should not be cut off fromproductiveworkduring that period.
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The more endeavour there is behindproductiveworkthe less concentration will there be on non-productive effort.
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What we want to increase is usefulproductivework.
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I am not here talking about values created by one's ownproductiveworkor ingenuity, but values socially created.
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I may have given 40 years of my life toproductivework, and then become unemployed.
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In view of this new burden onproductivework, those professions are worth no more than his plea for economy.
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There is no sort of useful,productiveworkthat can begin in any other way.
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We have to confine ourselves to increasing useful,productivework.
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With only one face now operational, there is littleproductiveworkavailable, sadly, for many members of the work force.
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