labor-intensive

1. 1.

   requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital

   “cottage industries are labor intensive”

   Synonymslabour-intensive

   Similareffortful

Questions about labor-intensive

What does labor-intensive mean?

labor-intensive means "requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital".

How many syllables are in labor-intensive?

labor-intensive has 5 syllables: la-bo-r-in-ten-sive. The stress falls on "r-in".

What is another word for labor-intensive?

Close synonyms include labour-intensive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is labor-intensive a common word?

labor-intensive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.