labour-intensive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˌlabour-ˈintensive British English, labor-intensive American English adjective 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 Dictionarylabour-intensiveˌlabour-inˈtensive British English, labor-intensive American English adjectiveCOMMERCEMANUFACTURING needing a lot of workers in order to produce somethingThe company was using old, labour-intensive production methods.Whereas goods production can be automated, the production of services is labor-intensive. → compare capital-intensiveˌlabour-ˈintensive adjectiveChineseSyllable
Corpus type of work is Business an a needs that or industry labour-intensive
labour-intensive
ˌlabour-ˈintensive
British English, labor-intensive American English adjective
an industry or type of work that is labour-intensive needs a lot of workers ⇨ capital-intensive:
labour-intensive farming methods
ˌlabour-ˈintensive
British English, labor-intensive American English adjectivean industry or type of work that is labour-intensive needs a lot of workers ⇨ capital-intensive:
especially