labor-intensive
- s requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital
- Competing there is a complicated, labor-intensive undertaking that, once finished, is cast off as an oddity and never repeated.
- But what about retired General Jack Keane--whom Krugman doesn't mention--and the significant number of military intellectuals who have favored a labor-intensive counterinsurgency .
- Because the farm is organic, production can be much more labor-intensive than in a conventional operation hence the need for hands-on work.