labour-intensive

1. 1.

   requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital

   “cottage industries are labor intensive”

   Synonymslabor-intensive

   Similareffortful

Questions about labour-intensive

What does labour-intensive mean?

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

How many syllables are in labour-intensive?

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

What is another word for labour-intensive?

Close synonyms include labor-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.