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labor-intensive

labor-intensive adjective: requiring a great deal of work, especially physical and manual effort versus capital.

Adjective

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

  1. (US) 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

labor-intensive meaning in Malay and Indonesian

labor-intensive in Malay

requiring a great deal of work
intensif buruh

labor-intensive in Indonesian

requiring a great deal of work
padat karya

Synonyms of labor-intensive

Antonyms

Forms of labor-intensive

comparativemore labor-intensive
superlativemost labor-intensive
alternative formlabour-intensive

Origin of labor-intensive

From labor + intensive. Compare work-intensive.

Words formed from labor-intensive

Questions about labor-intensive

What does labor-intensive mean?
Labor-intensive means requiring a great deal of work, especially physical and manual effort versus capital.
What is labor-intensive in Malay?
Labor-intensive in Malay is intensif buruh. See Labor-intensive meaning in Malay.
What part of speech is labor-intensive?
Labor-intensive is an adjective.

Words near labor-intensive in the dictionary

  1. labor union
  2. labor unions
  3. labor value theory
  4. Labor Zionism
  5. Labor Zionisms
  6. labor-intensive
  7. labor-intensiveness
  8. labor-saver
  9. labor-savers
  10. labor-saving
  11. labor-value theory

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