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labour-intensive
adjective
requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital
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cottage industries are labor intensive

• Syn: ↑labor-intensive
• Similar to: ↑effortful

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laˈbour-intensˈive adjective
Requiring a relatively large number of workers for the capital invested, opp to capital-intensive
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Main Entry: ↑labour

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labour-intensive UK US adjective business
a labour-intensive industry or process needs a lot of people to do the work
Thesaurus: describing or relating to factories and producing goodshyponym

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ˌlabour-inˈtensive [labour-intensive] (especially US ˌlabor-inˈtensive) adjective
(of work) needing a lot of people to do it

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labour-intensive methods

compare ↑capital-intensive

Useful english dictionary. 2012.