labour-intensive

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ˌlabour-ˈintensive British EnglishBrE, labor-intensive American English adjectiveadj

PEan industry or type of work that is labour-intensive needs a lot of workers 劳动密集型的 → capital-intensive

labour-intensive farming methods

劳动密集型耕作法

Examples from the Corpus

labour-intensive• The project is what you might call labour-intensive.• Work on site, however, even in the 1980s remains fairly labour-intensive.• Like all forms of animation, this is time-consuming, labour-intensive and, therefore, expensive.• By contrast, the local authorities have mainly helped small businesses in more labour-intensive industries.• What they have to say throws doubt on previous inferences about how labour-intensive Maya agricultural techniques were, at least at San Antonio.• Reductions in spending on labour-intensive services increase unemployment and hence social security costs.• For the most part, these contract workers work under the supervision of permanent staff, performing more labour-intensive tasks.

From Longman Business Dictionary