labour-intensive

Speech parts

1. labour-intensive - Adjective

2. labour-intensive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital

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Alternative names

labour intensive

Synonyms

labor-intensive labour extensive labor employment intense intensive deed cumbersome intensively laborious doing operose intensiveness time-consuming

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Antonyms

simple easy fun facile effortless unemployment

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Examples

Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue. Garth Nix

cottage industries are labor intensive Source: Internet

A four-year tax holiday deal could also be extended to companies, willing to invest $100 million or more in labour-intensive sectors like textiles, food processing, leather and footwear. Source: Internet

Also unchanged was its production method, which was extremely labour-intensive. Source: Internet

Calabash gourds (usually with meerschaum or porcelain bowls set inside them) have long made prized pipes, but they are labour-intensive and, today, quite expensive. Source: Internet

All this is hugely labour-intensive. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Labour Zionism labour-abundant labour-consuming labour-saver labourage laboural