labour-intensive
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1. labour-intensive - Adjective
2. labour-intensive - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital
Source: WordNetAlternative names
labour intensive
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Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.
cottage industries are labor intensive
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.
Also unchanged was its production method, which was extremely labour-intensive.
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.
All this is hugely labour-intensive.