ADJECTIVE
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requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital
cottage industries are labor intensive
How To Use labor-intensive In A Sentence
- Sophie Theallet says she simplified some of her trademark labor-intensive haute-couture elements, like hand-stitched insets. From the Runways, Five Easy Pieces for Fall
- Cash donations also allow agencies to avoid the labor-intensive need to store, sort, pack and distribute donated goods.
- Many Arab dishes, like stuffed zucchini or green peppers and stuffed grape or cabbage leaves, are highly labor-intensive.
- Maybe her experience with crawfish boils made her more open to the joys of labor-intensive feasts.
- The Chinese government plans to impose new restrictions to discourage investment in labor-intensive industries that produce cheap goods for export.
- Statistics provide a compelling illustration of how labor-intensive restaurants are compared to other industries.
- During the early 1990s, much of the money went into such labor-intensive industries as textiles and toys.
- Seliger's labor-intensive techniques of accretion and abrasion often mimic geologic processes.
- Some people milk the does twice a day and give the kids bottles, which is labor-intensive but helps accustom kids to human handling.
- Removing the larvae by hand by slitting the stem and digging out the grubs with a knife is labor-intensive, but effective.