labor-intensive

English

Alternative forms

• labour-intensive (UK)

Etymology

From labor +‎ intensive. Compare work-intensive.

Adjective

labor-intensive (comparative more labor-intensive, superlative most labor-intensive)

1. (American spelling) Requiring a great deal of work, especially physical and manual effort versus capital.

   Picking beans is a very labor-intensive activity, there's no machine made that can do it.

Synonyms

• work-intensive

Antonyms

• capital-intensive

Derived terms

• labor-intensiveness

 

Translations

requiring a great deal of work

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勞動密集型／劳动密集型 (láodòng mìjíxíng)

• Danish: arbejdsintensiv, arbejdskraftintensiv
• Dutch: arbeidsintensief (nl)
• Finnish: työintensiivinen
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: arbeitsintensiv
• Greek: εντάσεως εργασίας (el) (entáseos ergasías), έντασης εργασίας (éntasis ergasías)
• Indonesian: padat karya (id)
• Malay: intensif buruh
• Polish: pracochłonny (pl) m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: трудоёмкий (ru) (trudojómkij)
• Swedish: arbetsintensiv (sv)

References

• “labor-intensive”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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