productive workforce

collocation in English

meaningsofproductiveandworkforce

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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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workforce
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˈwɜːk.fɔːs/us
/ˈwɝːk.fɔːrs/
the group of people who work in a company, industry, ...
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(Definition ofproductiveandworkforcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Companies, they argue, can get a more committed andproductiveworkforceby fundamentally altering the way they recruit, train, promote, and pay their workers.
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Increased worker participation helps to achieve a happier, more highly motivated and moreproductiveworkforce.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We cannot take companies to places where there are no people, where there is no productiveworkforce, and where theproductiveworkforcedoes not go because there are no companies.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Reducing the qualifying period should help to promote a more flexible labour market and encourage a more committed andproductiveworkforce.
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It provides for the creation of aproductiveworkforcefor independent civil society organisations, namely training of secret agents.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Poor water leads to disease and disability and to death and, of course, the loss of aproductiveworkforce.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
A happier workforce is a moreproductiveworkforce.
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The local collieries enjoyed a reputation for highly skilled miners, aproductiveworkforceand non-radical politics, and the community had thriving shops, churches, chapels and sports teams.
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Qualified individuals with a reduced risk of such counterproductive workplace behaviors are selected for employment, leading to a moreproductiveworkforce.
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Apart from meeting the basic need for shelter, it provides a foundation for family and social stability, and contributes to improved health and educational outcomes and aproductiveworkforce.
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