labor-intensive

ADJECTIVE
  1. requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital
    cottage industries are labor intensive
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  • Water management for irrigation purposes, here in an above-ground channel or jui, but also in underground karez and qanat systems, is labor-intensive and predicated on cooperation. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • With heavy equipment airdrops, the user is responsible for rigging the loads, a labor-intensive process requiring specialized materials.
  • Against such a view as his, it can be argued that touring something as cumbrous and labor-intensive as opera is an expensive business.
  • Blinded review as a method to measure the true error rate is labor-intensive.
  • But labor-intensive sectors still face challenges in upgrading technologies, management and quality of employees.
  • Along the West Coast, Japanese immigrants had found the small niches, especially in farming, that white Americans had not exploited and become successful at them -- for instance, strawberry farming, which is extremely labor-intensive. "THE WAR", OURS AND THEIRS -- PROPAGANDA AS BRAIN DAMAGE
  • At about the same time, politicians and development officials also became aware of the vast potential for employment in the forestry sector, particularly if labor-intensive practices were emphasized.
  • His decision to work in mezzotint was partly perverse, as it was an antiquated medium so labor-intensive that it was only rarely practiced.
  • Maybe her experience with crawfish boils made her more open to the joys of labor-intensive feasts.
  • But labor-intensive sectors still face challenges in upgrading technologies, management and quality of employees.
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