labour-intensive

English

Alternative forms

• labor-intensive (US)

Adjective

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

1. British standard spelling of labor-intensive.
   • 2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     The French Dispatch has to be one of the most labour-intensive films in existence. It makes The Grand Budapest Hotel look as if it was improvised over a weekend and shot with a smartphone.

   • 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 39:

     In Britain, nearly 2,500 steam locomotives were built, 999 to new designs. Although the latter were modern, they were still labour-intensive to man and maintain, during a period of full employment when working for poor pay in the dirty railway environment was unattractive.

References

• “labour-intensive”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “labour-intensive”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.