labor-intensive

labor-intensive

English

Alternative forms

• labour-intensive (UK)

Etymology

From labor +‎ intensive. Compare work-intensive.

Adjective

labor-intensive (comparative more labor-intensive, superlative most labor-intensive)

1. (American spelling) Requiring a great deal of work, especially physical and manual effort versus capital.

   Picking beans is a very labor-intensive activity, there's no machine made that can do it.

Synonyms

• work-intensive

Antonyms

• capital-intensive

Translations

requiring a great deal of work

Chinese: Mandarin: 勞動密集型／劳动密集型 (láodòng mìjíxíng) Danish: arbejdsintensiv, arbejdskraftintensiv Finnish: työintensiivinen French: please add this translation if you can German: arbeitsintensiv Greek: εντάσεως εργασίας (el) (entáseos ergasías), έντασης εργασίας (éntasis ergasías) Polish: pracochłonny (pl) m Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Russian: трудоёмкий (ru) (trudojómkij) Swedish: arbetsintensiv (sv)

References

• labor-intensive at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

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