| 单词 | labour-intensive |
| 释义 | labour-intensiveWord family adjectivelaboriouslabouredlaboursomelabour-intensivelabour-savingadverblaboriouslynounlaboriousnesslabourerlabourismlabouristLabouritelabor unionlabour camplabour forcelabour Economics ˌlabour-ˈintensive British EnglishBrE, labor-intensive American English adjectiveadj PEan industry or type of work that is labour-intensive needs a lot of workers 劳动密集型的 → capital-intensive labour-intensive farming methods 劳动密集型耕作法 Examples from the Corpus labour-intensive• The project is what you might call labour-intensive.• Work on site, however, even in the 1980s remains fairly labour-intensive.• Like all forms of animation, this is time-consuming, labour-intensive and, therefore, expensive.• By contrast, the local authorities have mainly helped small businesses in more labour-intensive industries.• What they have to say throws doubt on previous inferences about how labour-intensive Maya agricultural techniques were, at least at San Antonio.• Reductions in spending on labour-intensive services increase unemployment and hence social security costs.• For the most part, these contract workers work under the supervision of permanent staff, performing more labour-intensive tasks. From Longman Business Dictionary labour-intensiveˌlabour-inˈtensive British EnglishBrE, labor-intensive American EnglishAmE adjectiveadjCOMMERCEMANUFACTURING needing a lot of workers in order to produce something The company was using old, labour-intensive production methods. Whereas goods production can be automated, the production of services is labor-intensive. → compare capital-intensive |
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