Meanings
- uncountableLack or absence of production
That such a market of carbon unproduction will ultimately have virtually no impact upon the trajectory of global carbon emissions is almost beside the point.
2014, Michael Heinlein, Cordula Kropp, Judith Neumer, Futures of Modernity: Challenges for Cosmopolitical Thought and Practice1 more example
Capital itself demands the abolition of national boundaries, involves a system of production in which what traditionally was considered reproduction or unproduction is equally a part of production itself [...]
2012, A. Kiarina Kordela, SurplusSynonyms: productionlessness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounLack or absence of production
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
- Proto-Indo-European*pér
- Proto-Indo-European*pró
- Proto-Indo-European*pro-
- Proto-Italic*pro-
- Latinprō-
- Proto-Indo-European*dewk-
- Proto-Indo-European*déwkti
- Proto-Italic*doukō
- Latindūcō
- Latinprōdūcō
- Latinprōductiō
- Old Frenchproduction
- Middle Englishproduccioun
- Englishproduction
- Englishunproduction
From un- (“lack of”) + production.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
unproduction. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unproduction
“unproduction.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unproduction. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unproduction,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unproduction.
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