Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1. (a.) Yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products. 2. (a.) Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements. 3. (a.) Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.
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