ADJECTIVE
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requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital
cottage industries are labor intensive
How To Use labour-intensive In A Sentence
- Not so many people collect the crabs today as it's so labour-intensive.
- The developed countries would then have less difficulty in giving financial aid to the third world; and, what in my opinion is even more important, they could much more readily accept the inflow from the third world of their labour-intensive products. James E. Meade - Prize Lecture
- As the traditional labour-intensive industry, the interior or external logistic management of the tyre manufacturers is relatively complicated and tedious.
- Traditionally, higher education is a labour-intensive business in which the costs are determined by the average size of classes and the number of contact hours.
- Anhui should encourage developing labour-intensive industry actively and offer the peasants go into town the chance of more employment.
- This process is extremely labour-intensive and requires great dedication from the weavers. Times, Sunday Times
- It's far less labour-intensive and cheaper to administer as a universal benefit. Times, Sunday Times
- Worked all hours New scientific advances are making healthcare less labour-intensive. The Sun
- There are some areas where you will always depend on drilling and blasting - labour-intensive processes. Times, Sunday Times
- The European Commission proposes to allow seventeen Member States to either continue or start to apply reduced rates of Value Added Tax until 31 December 2010, on some labour-intensive services such as renovation of private dwellings, hairdressing, window-cleaning, domestic cares and small repairs.