labour-intensive
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- labor-intensive (US)
Adjective[edit]
labour-intensive (comparative more labour-intensive, superlative most labour-intensive)
- (British spelling) Alternative form of labor-intensive.
- 2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC[1]:
- The French Dispatch has to be one of the most labour-intensive films in existence. It makes The Grand Budapest Hotel look as if it was improvised over a weekend and shot with a smartphone.
- 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 39:
- In Britain, nearly 2,500 steam locomotives were built, 999 to new designs. Although the latter were modern, they were still labour-intensive to man and maintain, during a period of full employment when working for poor pay in the dirty railway environment was unattractive.
References[edit]
- “labour-intensive”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “labour-intensive”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.