- ˌlabour-inˈtensive
- adjneeding a lot of workers rather than machines
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labour-intensive — ˌlabour inˈtensive , labor intensive adjective COMMERCE MANUFACTURING needing a lot of workers in order to produce something: • The company was using old, labour intensive production methods. • Whereas goods production can be automated, the… … Financial and business terms
labour-intensive — adjective requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital cottage industries are labor intensive • Syn: ↑labor intensive • Similar to: ↑effortful * * * laˈbour intensˈive adjective Requiring a relatively large number of workers for… … Useful english dictionary
ˌcapital-inˈtensive — adj a capital intensive business or activity needs to have a lot of money invested in it • See: labour intensive … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
labor-intensive — adjective requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital cottage industries are labor intensive • Syn: ↑labour intensive • Similar to: ↑effortful * * * ˌlabour inˈtensive [labour intensive] … Useful english dictionary
agriculture — ag‧ri‧cul‧ture [ˈægrɪˌkʌltʆə ǁ ər] noun [uncountable] FARMING the practice or science of farming: • Agriculture accounts for over 25% of net domestic production. agricultural adjective : • sales of agricultural machinery exˌtensive ˈagriculture … Financial and business terms
capital-intensive — Used to describe industries that require large investments in capital assets to produce their goods, such as the automobile industry. These firms require large profit margins and/or low costs of borrowing to survive. Bloomberg Financial… … Financial and business terms
people-intensive — ˈpeople inˌtensive adjective HUMAN RESOURCES a people intensive business or organization needs a lot of people to make it run correctly: • Schools are people intensive. They need pupils and they need staff. * * * people intensive UK US adjective… … Financial and business terms
capital-intensive — capital in tensive adj a capital intensive business, industry etc needs a lot of money in order to operate properly →↑labour intensive … Dictionary of contemporary English
capital-intensive — ¦ ̷ ̷ ( ̷ ̷ ) ̷ ̷ (ˈ) ̷ ̷ ¦ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective : having a high capital cost per unit of output ; especially : requiring greater expenditure in the form of capital than of labor * * * adj [more capital intensive; most capital intensive] business … Useful english dictionary
