work-intensive
work-intensive adjective: focusing on, requiring, or exacting a great deal of work or effort; worksome; labour-intensive.
Adjective
work-intensive (comparative more work-intensive, superlative most work-intensive)
- Focusing on, requiring, or exacting a great deal of work or effort; worksome; labour-intensive.
- Highly work-intensive people seek to have a profound influence in shaping their society.1991, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, The Hero's Farewell
- We now focus our discussion on the DTU for the group of children who select into the less work-intensive sequence being compared.2004, José Canals-Cerdá, Cristóbal Ridao-Cano, The Dynamics of School and Work in Rural Bangladesh
- Synonyms:
- labor-intensive
Synonyms of work-intensive
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Forms of work-intensive
| comparative | more work-intensive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most work-intensive |
Origin of work-intensive
From work + intensive.
Questions about work-intensive
- What does work-intensive mean?
- Work-intensive means focusing on, requiring, or exacting a great deal of work or effort; worksome; labour-intensive.
- What part of speech is work-intensive?
- Work-intensive is an adjective.
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