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labour-intensive

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labour-intensive
adj
of or denoting a task, organization, industry, etc., in which a high proportion of the costs are due to wages, salaries, etc.
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Adj.1.labour-intensive - requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital; "cottage industries are labor intensive"
effortful - requiring great physical effort
Translations
labour-intensive labor-intensive (US) [ˈleɪbərɪnˈtensɪv] ADJque emplea mucha mano de obra
labour-intensive industryindustria f que emplea mucha mano de obra
labour-intensive, (US) labor-intensive
labour-intensive labor-intensive (Am) [ˈleɪbərɪnˌtɛnsɪv] adjche assorbe molta manodopera
labour-intensive labor-intensive (Am) [ˈleɪbərɪnˌtɛnsɪv] adjche assorbe molta manodopera


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Aged care is very labour-intensive, yet nurses spend an enormous amount of time simply walking around looking for something they need, or for a colleague to help lift a resident,' she said.
The despotic regime used coercive control, pays below minimum wages, utilizes traditional labour-intensive assembly-line production methods and suffers from an adversarial and unstable work environment.
Aviation is a very capital and labour-intensive activity," he says.
 
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