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Labor-intensive

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Adjective

1. labor-intensive, labour-intensive

requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital

Example Sentences:
'cottage industries are labor intensive'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Labor-intensive

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adjective
requiring a large labor force and a relatively small investment in capital goods
a labor-intensive industry or plant

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Labor-intensive

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adj.
Requiring or having a large expenditure of labor in comparison to capital: "Intrigue and subversion are labor-intensive undertakings" (George F. Kennan).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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