Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Requiring or having a large expenditure of labor in comparison to capital.
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- adjective Requiring a great deal of
work , especiallyphysical andmanual effort.
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- adjective requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is what is known as a labor-intensive industry, where all the cost, almost all the cost, should be labor because that’s what it is.
It’s What’s Inside the Lines That Counts Fay Vincent 2010
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This is what is known as a labor-intensive industry, where all the cost, almost all the cost, should be labor because that’s what it is.
It’s What’s Inside the Lines That Counts Fay Vincent 2010
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This is what is known as a labor-intensive industry, where all the cost, almost all the cost, should be labor because that’s what it is.
It’s What’s Inside the Lines That Counts Fay Vincent 2010
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If we think about the tremendous amount of savings Americans get from imported labor-intensive goods, we can see the tremendous possibility of "offshored" medicine.
Provider-Driven Health Care Regulation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Other measures are designed to boost labor-intensive sectors such as tourism, some service businesses and road-building by reducing taxes and refocusing capital spending on maintaining local highways.
Ireland Pins Hopes on Job Creation Eamon Quinn 2011
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Outsourcing firms are low-margin, labor-intensive "body shops" that often do run-of-the-mill tech support for office workers or manage data centers.
IBM Shows H-P How to Serve Clients Rolfe Winkler 2011
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Many small business owners complain that despite the government's call for them to transform their labor-intensive business model, or Zhuanxing in Chinese, there has been little policy support offered.
Pressure Grows on China to Spur Domestic Consumption Lingling Wei 2011
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He argued that most services were, by their nature, labor-intensive.
Service Sector Productivity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The market economics were right: frikeh was not being produced in this country, and the process was labor-intensive, with only a three-day window of time to harvest the wheat for parching.
Rebecca Gerendasy: Frikeh: Green Wheat Wonder Rebecca Gerendasy 2011
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The market economics were right: frikeh was not being produced in this country, and the process was labor-intensive, with only a three-day window of time to harvest the wheat for parching.
Rebecca Gerendasy: Frikeh: Green Wheat Wonder Rebecca Gerendasy 2011
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