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la·bor-in·ten·sive

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. labor-intensive, labour-intensiveadjective

    requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital

    "cottage industries are labor intensive"

Wiktionary

  1. labor-intensiveadjective

    Requiring a great deal of work, especially physical and manual effort.

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  1. labor-intensive

    Labor-intensive refers to a process, industry, or type of work that requires a large amount of human labor to perform, often due to the task being complex, delicate, or not easily automated. This type of work tends to have high labor costs because it requires a high number of employees.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of labor-intensive in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of labor-intensive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of labor-intensive in a Sentence

  1. Sam Bullard:

    Labor market conditions appear to be healthy at the start of the third quarter as labor-intensive service businesses continue to hire given strong pent-up demand.

  2. Ted Cruz:

    I feel confident that I'm never going to have a plane with my name on it, how do you run a grassroots campaign? It's very time intensive. It's labor intensive. You don't do it sitting back in the easy chair. You don't do it from a TV studio in Manhattan.

  3. Hitoshi Matsubara:

    In Japan, IT jobs have long been thought of as labor-intensive with low pay and late-night work. If they are as well-paid and rewarding as in the United States and China, information science would become more popular among students.

  4. Tara Reed:

    I’d started to get interested in fine art, and it struck me how annoying and labor-intensive it would be to find art I liked for my new place, for food, music, fashion, movies, I could just tap an app and get a personal recommendation. But the fine-art world hadn’t caught up to that.

  5. Kevin Garcia:

    If you look at the whole process of how paper is traditionally made, it involves chopping trees, adding chemicals and bleach to make pulp, using lots of water and then squeezing, drying and flattening it into sheets of paper, it's labor intensive, contributes to high carbon emission deforestation.


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