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Labor-intensive

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Requiring a great deal of work, especially physical and manual effort versus capital. US

    "Picking beans is a very labor-intensive activity, there's no machine made that can do it."

Adjective
  1. 1
    requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital wordnet

Etymology

From labor + intensive. Compare work-intensive.

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