labor-intensive
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5.3
- adjective
- /ˈleɪbər ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/
- Specialized
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intensivo en mano de obra
- Many of the jobs in this factory are labor-intensive, requiring workers to perform manual tasks for hours.
- labor-intensive industries
- labor-intensive manufacturing
- labor-intensive manufactured
Asylum is a very, very labor intensive process, OK.
- Asylum is a very, very labor intensive process, OK.
- Now pro topography is labour intensive and it's not without problems.
- But the way matcha has grown, how it's prepared, it's a long labor intensive process.
- And the CEO there has this vision where he said, look, mortgages are still a very complex labor intensive product.
- The economy is moving away from sort of Labor intensive jobs towards jobs that reward soft skills and social skills and credentials.
Examples
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Such a process was extremely labour intensive and costly.
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Much of this growth came from labor-intensive manufactures, particularly gems and jewelry, garments, and leather products.
Academic text (1994) -
So the battery line is more labor intensive so far.
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The first model is less capital- and more labor-intensive than the other two.
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The service industry offers many opportunities for modern robots to tackle labor-intensive jobs.
Academic text (1995) -
It is labor intensive and it's time intensive.
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Most of these enterprises were small to medium-sized, labor-intensive, and export-oriented.
Academic text (1999) -
Simply producing the seed to keep germplasm stores stocked is a costly and labor-intensive operation.
Academic text (1996) -
Recruiting, screening, and registering students and providing them with needed support services are time-consuming, labor-intensive aspects of the model.
Academic text (2011) -
In contrast, the customary means of opiate collection from the poppies was extremely labor-intensive.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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7.7
Very difficult to do and needing a lot of effort over a long time
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6.8
A task or process that needs a lot of time and hard work
Needing a lot of hard work and careful attention
Antonyms
How Labor-Intensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Labor-intensive comes from labor meaning 'work' and intensive meaning 'needing a lot of effort'. So a labor-intensive task is one that needs many people or a lot of human work rather than machines.