Usually means: Requiring a high amount of labor.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. labor-intensive: Merriam-Webster
  2. labor-intensive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. labor-intensive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. labor-intensive: Vocabulary.com
  5. labor-intensive: Wordnik
  6. labor-intensive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. labor-intensive: Wiktionary
  8. labor-intensive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. labor-intensive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. labor-intensive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. labor-intensive: Dictionary.com
  12. Labor-intensive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. labor-intensive: Rhymezone
  14. labor-intensive: FreeDictionary.org
  15. labor-intensive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. labor-intensive: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (American spelling) Requiring a great deal of work, especially physical and manual effort versus capital.

Similar:
worky, laborious, worksome, work-intensive, toilsome, strenuous, ultralaborious, intensive, labored, operose, more...

Opposite:
automated, efficient, streamlined, mechanized

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Similar:
worky, laborious, worksome, work-intensive, toilsome, strenuous, ultralaborious, intensive, labored, operose, more...

Opposite:
automated, efficient, streamlined, mechanized



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