Meanings
plural factors of production
- economicsA resource used to produce goods and services, such as labor, land, or capital.
1 more example
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
Translations
Bulgarian фактор на производството
- фактор на производството (faktor na proizvodstvoto)resource used for production
Chinese Mandarin 生產要素 /生产要素
- 生產要素 /生产要素 (shēngchǎn yàosù)resource used for production
Dutch productiefactor
- productiefactorresource used for production
Finnish tuotannontekijä
- tuotannontekijäresource used for production
French facteur de production
- facteur de productionresource used for production
German Produktionsfaktor, Inputfaktor
- Produktionsfaktorresource used for production
- Inputfaktorresource used for production
Hungarian termelési tényező
- termelési tényezőresource used for production
Polish czynnik produkcji
- czynnik produkcjiresource used for production
Portuguese fator de produção, fator produtivo
- fator de produçãoresource used for production
- fator produtivoresource used for production
Russian фа́ктор произво́дства
- фа́ктор произво́дства (fáktor proizvódstva)resource used for production
Spanish factor productivo, factor de producción
- factor productivoresource used for production
- factor de producciónresource used for production
Swedish produktionsfaktor
- produktionsfaktorresource used for production
Ukrainian фа́ктор виробни́цтва
- фа́ктор виробни́цтва (fáktor vyrobnýctva)resource used for production
Welsh ffactor cynhyrchu
- ffactor cynhyrchuresource used for production
Cite this entry
factor of production. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/factor%20of%20production
“factor of production.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/factor%20of%20production. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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