productive
It is important to have a workplace environment where everyone can work productively.
We need someone with the ability to use financial resources productively.
Set aside enough time each day to write productively.
Parents with grown-up children may be looking for new ways to be productively engaged.
Young children use language productively from their very earliest utterances.

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productively | Business English

productively
adverb
/prəˈdʌktɪvli/ukus
in a way that produces positive results or a larger quantity of something:
Their working system is based on the belief that people work more productively in a team.

Examples of productively

productively
The cultural development of a simply constructed and, therefore, more elastic language proceeds more productively than an old-fashioned, richly embellished one with minutely entangled forms.
She cited some studies that claim the difference is really rather small; one estimates that 92% of receptive vocabulary is known productively.
Imitation and problem solving are suggested as two capacities that might be productively modeled within their approach.
In the brain, macrophages/microglial cells are productively infected, while neurons and oligodendroglia are not.
When the questions were less ambitious and less general, the respondents had a chance to reflect more productively on the possibility of an integrated archaeology.
In addition, no child used verb morphology productively when experimenters attempted to elicit past tense usage.
Competition co-existed productively with co-operation, especially when pioneering development was in hand.
Overall, children combined the novel nouns productively with already known words much more often than they did the novel verbs - by many orders of magnitude.
In order to test if these alternative structures were produced productively with nouns of both grammatical genders, feminine and masculine nouns were analyzed separately.
Note, however, that this only concerns four tokens and that these instances are found before object pronouns start being used productively.
Pronunciation, then, plays a vital role in successful communication both productively and receptively.
However, most inanimate nouns take -u, and hence most children switch to -u as the preferred ending once they are able to use it productively.
Subjects were given a chance to use each of the novel verbs productively twice, after 9 and after 18 models.
Instead of being productively used, individual wealth was wasted on useless novelties that drained existing financial resources.
These "rules" of structuralfunctionalist theory are more productively thought of as generalities.
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