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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Just be more efficient But whether this finding applies to more labor-intensive jobs is doubtful.
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Allison Schrager, The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2024
Fishing was a labor-intensive process of weaving baskets from reeds and laying them in the water to trap fish in the current.
—Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024
Finding optimal circuit layout and routing in large scale semiconductor designs is both labor-intensive and complex, often leaving both performance, power efficiency and silicon cost on the table.
—Dave Altavilla, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
The application had long been derided as too complicated and too labor-intensive for families, asking for detailed tax information.
—Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
However, while making a substitute in a lab may be less labor-intensive than razing forests and nurturing millions of trees, to compete on price and volume the startups will need access to huge manufacturing facilities.
—Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
Purple was labor-intensive, but so widely produced that piles of shells discarded millenniums ago are now geographical features in the region.
—Franz Lidz, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
China’s workforce has been shrinking for over a decade, putting pressure on an economy that still relies on labor-intensive industries.
—Dake Kang and Elaine Kurtenbach, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
At the same time, much of a typical IT pro’s job involves complex and labor-intensive work such as setting up computers, provisioning apps to onboard new employees and staying on top of patches, updates and configuration changes across hundreds of SaaS apps and other systems.
—Douglas Murray, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
Allison Schrager, The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2024
Fishing was a labor-intensive process of weaving baskets from reeds and laying them in the water to trap fish in the current.
—Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024
Finding optimal circuit layout and routing in large scale semiconductor designs is both labor-intensive and complex, often leaving both performance, power efficiency and silicon cost on the table.
—Dave Altavilla, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
The application had long been derided as too complicated and too labor-intensive for families, asking for detailed tax information.
—Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
However, while making a substitute in a lab may be less labor-intensive than razing forests and nurturing millions of trees, to compete on price and volume the startups will need access to huge manufacturing facilities.
—Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
Purple was labor-intensive, but so widely produced that piles of shells discarded millenniums ago are now geographical features in the region.
—Franz Lidz, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
China’s workforce has been shrinking for over a decade, putting pressure on an economy that still relies on labor-intensive industries.
—Dake Kang and Elaine Kurtenbach, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
At the same time, much of a typical IT pro’s job involves complex and labor-intensive work such as setting up computers, provisioning apps to onboard new employees and staying on top of patches, updates and configuration changes across hundreds of SaaS apps and other systems.
—Douglas Murray, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
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“Labor-intensive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labor-intensive. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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