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labour-intensive

labour-intensive adjective: british standard spelling of labor-intensive.

Adjective

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

  1. British standard spelling of labor-intensive.
    • The French Dispatch has to be one of the most labour-intensive films in existence. It makes The Grand Budapest Hotel look as if it was improvised over a weekend and shot with a smartphone.2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC
    • In Britain, nearly 2,500 steam locomotives were built, 999 to new designs. Although the latter were modern, they were still labour-intensive to man and maintain, during a period of full employment when working for poor pay in the dirty railway environment was unattractive.2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 39

Forms of labour-intensive

comparativemore labour-intensive
superlativemost labour-intensive
alternative formlabor-intensive

Questions about labour-intensive

What does labour-intensive mean?
Labour-intensive means british standard spelling of labor-intensive.
What part of speech is labour-intensive?
Labour-intensive is an adjective.

Words near labour-intensive in the dictionary

  1. labour unions
  2. labour value theory
  3. Labour Zionism
  4. Labour Zionisms
  5. labour'd
  6. labour-intensive
  7. labour-saver
  8. labour-savers
  9. labour-saving
  10. labour-value theory
  11. labourage

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