productivepro·duc·tive /prəˈdʌktɪv/ adjectiveadj1producing or achieving somethingThe program is designed to help business users be more productive.
We want to turn welfare recipients into productive, working members of society.
The plant has the newest and most productive steel-making technology.
2ECONOMICSproducing crops, goods, or wealthThe strike is cutting deeper into the company’s productive capacity (=ability to produce things).
—productively adverbadvShe needs to use her time at work more productively.
—productiveness noun [uncountableU]