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Definitions for labor-intensive
la·bor-in·ten·sive
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Princeton's WordNet
labor-intensive, labour-intensiveadjective
requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital
"cottage industries are labor intensive"
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labor-intensiveadjective
Requiring a great deal of work, especially physical and manual effort.
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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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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of labor-intensive in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of labor-intensive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of labor-intensive in a Sentence
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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