labor-intensive

Speech parts

1. labor-intensive - Adjective

2. labor-intensive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital

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Alternative names

labor intensive

Synonyms

labour-intensive physical difficult heavy hard employment manual demanding consuming boring cumbersome arduous exacting exhausting laborious
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Antonyms

easy lazy facile effortless automated pink-collar
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Examples

When we were kicking around the idea for Netflix in 1997, proving out an idea was expensive and labor-intensive. There was no Squarespace, no cloud. If you wanted a website, you had to build it from scratch. If you wanted an online store, you had to completely design it yourself. Marc Randolph

cottage industries are labor intensive Source: Internet

Activities that will interfere with relaxation and enjoyment of the holiday—such as laundering, mending clothes, engaging in labor-intensive activities—are not permitted. Source: Internet

As an alternative to this labor-intensive method, plastic rings or cartridges can be used that do not require manual cutting of the comb, and speed packaging. Source: Internet

As building ontologies manually is extremely labor-intensive and time consuming, there is great motivation to automate the process. Source: Internet

Drip irrigation methods range from very high-tech and computerized to low-tech and labor-intensive. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

labor world Labor Zionism labor-consuming labor-intensiveness labor-saver labor-saving