Usually means: Requires significant investment in assets.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word capital-intensive:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. capital-intensive: Merriam-Webster
  2. capital-intensive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. capital-intensive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. capital-intensive, capital-intensive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. capital-intensive: Wordnik
  6. capital-intensive: Wiktionary
  7. capital-intensive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. capital-intensive: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. capital-intensive: Dictionary.com
  10. capital-intensive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Capital-Intensive: Financial dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Needing a relatively large expenditure on capital, especially when compared to that spent on labour.

Similar:
extramarginal, business-critical, cost-effective, company-specific, rich, economical, value added, long, debt-financed, profitseeking, more...

Opposite:
labor-intensive, low-capital, low-investment

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Similar:
extramarginal, business-critical, cost-effective, company-specific, rich, economical, value added, long, debt-financed, profitseeking, more...

Opposite:
labor-intensive, low-capital, low-investment



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