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Productivity

The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.

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Fecundity 76% connected

The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great number…

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Ratio 76% connected

The relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another of the same kind. It is expressed by the quotient of the division of the first by the sec…

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Productive 74% connected

Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which i…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Productive 74% connected

Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which i…

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Scarcity 84% connected

The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penu…

economics fundamentals 25% interchangeable

Output produced from a given amount of input.

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Demand verb · 81% connection

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently o…

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Inflation noun · 81% connection

The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.

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market equilibrium noun · 81% connection

The point where buyers want to purchase the same amount sellers want to provide.

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Opportunity cost noun · 81% connection

What you give up by choosing one option instead of the next best option.

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Supply verb · 81% connection

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smalle…

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Capital account noun · 86% connection

(economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities

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Constitutional economics noun · 86% connection

A branch of economics which focuses on the conditions that exist in and choices constrained by the legal framework of a political cons…

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Consumption noun · 86% connection

(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"

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Corner noun · 86% connection

a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade; "a corner on the silver market"

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Cost noun · 86% connection

the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold); "the fluctuating monetar…

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Econometrics noun · 86% connection

the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial data

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Economic consumption noun · 86% connection

(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"

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Economic science noun · 86% connection

the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management

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Economics noun · 86% connection

the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management

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Finance noun · 86% connection

the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets

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GDP noun · 86% connection

the measure of an economy adopted by the United States in 1991; the total market values of goods and services produced by workers and…

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Gross domestic product noun · 86% connection

the measure of an economy adopted by the United States in 1991; the total market values of goods and services produced by workers and…

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Macroeconomics noun · 86% connection

the branch of economics that studies the overall working of a national economy

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Managerial economics noun · 86% connection

application of the economic concepts and economic analysis to the problems of formulating rational managerial decisions.; "In manageri…

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Microeconomics noun · 86% connection

the branch of economics that studies the economy of consumers or households or individual firms

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Monetary value noun · 86% connection

the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold); "the fluctuating monetar…

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Monopoly noun · 86% connection

(economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller; "a monopoly on silver"; "when you have a monopoly you can ask…

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Monopsony noun · 86% connection

(economics) a market in which goods or services are offered by several sellers but there is only one buyer

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Aguish adjective · 78% connection

Productive of, or affected by, ague; as, the aguish districts of England.

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Battable adjective · 78% connection

Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive; fattening.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: productive, productiveness.
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Battel adjective · 78% connection

Fertile; fruitful; productive.

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Carpogenic adjective · 78% connection

Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.

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Childing verb · 78% connection

Bearing Children; (Fig.) productive; fruitful.

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