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Requiring a great deal of work, especially physical and manual effort versus capital.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Examples
- Picking beans is a very labor-intensive activity, there's no machine made that can do it.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
adjective satellite
Meaning 2
requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- cottage industries are labor intensive
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: labour-intensive
Antonyms: none provided
From labor + intensive. Compare work-intensive.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Belarusian:
працаёмкі
(pracajómki)
— requiring a great deal of work
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Chinese Mandarin:
勞動密集型 /劳动密集型
(láodòng mìjíxíng)
— requiring a great deal of work
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Danish:
arbejdsintensiv
— requiring a great deal of work
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Danish:
arbejdskraftintensiv
— requiring a great deal of work
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Dutch:
arbeidsintensief
— requiring a great deal of work
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Finnish:
työintensiivinen
— requiring a great deal of work
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German:
arbeitsintensiv
— requiring a great deal of work
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Greek:
εντάσεως εργασίας
(entáseos ergasías)
— requiring a great deal of work
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Greek:
έντασης εργασίας
(éntasis ergasías)
— requiring a great deal of work
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Hungarian:
munkaigényes
— requiring a great deal of work
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Indonesian:
padat karya
— requiring a great deal of work
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Malay:
intensif buruh
— requiring a great deal of work
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Polish:
pracochłonny
— requiring a great deal of work
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Russian:
трудоёмкий
(trudojómkij)
— requiring a great deal of work
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Swedish:
arbetsintensiv
— requiring a great deal of work
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Ukrainian:
трудомістки́й
(trudomistkýj)
— requiring a great deal of work