labor-intensive
adjective
la·bor-in·ten·sive
ˈlā-bər-in-ˌten(t)-siv 
: having high labor costs per unit of output
especially
: requiring greater expenditure on labor than in capital
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However, in ensuing months, various state departments weighed in and found the proposal to be too expensive and labor-intensive.
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Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2025
Moving 100,000 totes demonstrates that Digit can reliably handle repetitive, labor-intensive tasks.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025
That’s not a new concept, but the traditional approach is labor-intensive and means traffic lights aren’t retimed very often, according to Henry Liu, director of U-M’s Transportation Research Institute and the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation.
—Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 18 Nov. 2025
Good call having this fellow do two sketches in such labor-intensive makeup.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
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Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2025
Moving 100,000 totes demonstrates that Digit can reliably handle repetitive, labor-intensive tasks.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025
That’s not a new concept, but the traditional approach is labor-intensive and means traffic lights aren’t retimed very often, according to Henry Liu, director of U-M’s Transportation Research Institute and the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation.
—Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 18 Nov. 2025
Good call having this fellow do two sketches in such labor-intensive makeup.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
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“Labor-intensive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labor-intensive. Accessed 28 Nov. 2025.
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