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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. Amy Yorke:

    What we experience early in our life does have an impact in how we perform later in life, Men that tend to have more labor-intensive jobs tend to have less grip strength later in life.

  3. Barbara Barrett:

    Space Force won't be measured by the number of people unlike for instance the Marine Corps, which is really a labor-intensive service, space Force is much more measured by the technology and the capabilities.

  4. Susan Rice:

    Child care and long-term care systems in this country just don’t work well – high quality care is costly to deliver, it’s labor intensive, it requires skilled workers, yet care workers – who are disproportionately women and women of color and immigrants – are among the lowest paid in the country, despite working in some of the most important and complex and demanding jobs. At the same time, the price of care represents an outside share of family’s budget, with child care prices up 26% in just the last decade and long-term care costs up nearly 40%.

  5. 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.


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