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laborintensive

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la⋅bor-in⋅ten⋅sive

  [ley-ber-in-ten-siv]
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–adjective
requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
Origin:
1950–55
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labor-intensive

A term describing industries that require a great deal of labor relative to capital (compare capital-intensive). Examples of labor-intensive industries are forms of agriculture that cannot make use of machinery and service industries, such as restaurants.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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