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• labor-intensive — [lā′bərin ten′siv] adj. requiring a large labor force and a relatively small investment in capital goods [a labor intensive industry or plant] …   English World dictionary

• labor-intensive — UK US adjective US HR ► LABOUR INTENSIVE(Cf. ↑labour intensive) …   Financial and business terms

• Labor induction — Intervention ICD 9 CM 73.0 73.1 Labor induction is a method of artificially or prematurely stimulating …   Wikipedia

• labor-intensive — labor in tensive adjective a labor intensive industry or process needs a lot of people, so that a large proportion of its costs are salaries rather than new machines or the materials to make things with …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• intensive — [in ten′siv] adj. [ML intensious < L intensus: see INTENSE & IVE] 1. increasing or causing to increase in degree or amount 2. of or characterized by intensity; thorough, profound, and intense; concentrated or exhaustive 3. designating care of… …   English World dictionary

• Labor intensity — is the relative proportion of labor (compared to capital) used in a process. The term labor intensive can be used when proposing the amount of work that is assigned to each worker/employee (labor), emphasizing on the skill involved in the… …   Wikipedia

• -intensive — [ ıntensıv ] suffix used with some nouns to make adjectives meaning that a lot of something is needed: labor intensive industry …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Labor Intensive — A process or industry that requires a large amount of labor to produce its goods or services. The degree of labor intensity is typically measured in proportion to the amount of capital required to produce the goods/services; the higher the… …   Investment dictionary

• labor-intensive — adjective requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital cottage industries are labor intensive • Syn: ↑labour intensive • Similar to: ↑effortful * * * ˌlabour inˈtensive [labour intensive] …   Useful english dictionary

• intensive — intensively, adv. intensiveness, n. /in ten siv/, adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or characterized by intensity: intensive questioning. 2. tending to intensify; intensifying. 3. Med. a. increasing in intensity or degree. b. instituting treatment to… …   Universalium

• intensive — in•ten•sive [[t]ɪnˈtɛn sɪv[/t]] adj. 1) of or characterized by intensity: intensive questioning[/ex] 2) tending to intensify; intensifying 3) agr. of or pertaining to a system of farming in which large amounts of labor and often capital are… …   From formal English to slang