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cap·i·tal-in·ten·sive

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  1. capital-intensiveadjective

    Needing a relatively large expenditure on capital, especially when compared to that spent on labour.

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  1. capital-intensive

    Capital intensity is the amount of fixed or real capital present in relation to other factors of production, especially labor. At the level of either a production process or the aggregate economy, it may be estimated by the capital to labor ratio, such as from the points along a capital/labor isoquant.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of capital-intensive in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of capital-intensive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of capital-intensive in a Sentence

  1. Zachary Collier:

    It's a very capital-intensive process to build a big manufacturing facility like this and anything that offsets some of those costs very much incentivizes United States to bring those things onshore.

  2. Argo Chief Executive Salesky:

    We all realize this is a time-, talent- and capital-intensive business.

  3. Atlantic Equities analyst Chris Wheeler:

    The biggest culprit remains FICC, which continues to also be a very capital intensive business.

  4. Igor Sechin:

    I'd like to highlight that current oil prices are not critical for us. We can postpone some capital-intensive projects, what is going to happen of course is that it (low prices) will have an impact on the global oil supply.

  5. Tony Will:

    Our industry is very capital-intensive.

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