time-consumingˈtime-conˌsuming ●○○ adjective 
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a complex and time-consuming process
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Thesaurus- Caring for a disabled child is a time-consuming, but ultimately rewarding, job.
- Filling out the paperwork is a time-consuming process.
- Repairs can be time-consuming and expensive.
- We wanted to avoid costly, time-consuming legislation.
- All this begging for money was time-consuming and degrading so I decided to concentrate on finding work.
- But it will be very time-consuming for secretarial staff if there are a great many.
- It is very laborious and time-consuming, involving the researcher full-time for at least a matter of months, and sometimes years.
- Starting the time-consuming process of interviewing childminders all over again was a daunting prospect.
- Taxi permits are limited and can be time-consuming to obtain.
- The reality is that a child is a time-consuming, all-engulfing creature who disrupts any semblance of pleasurable home life.
- This time-consuming procedure does not result in coherent programs of study, such as those at Sinclair.
Longman Language Activatorwhen you need a lot of time in order to do something► take a long time
Collocations · Our visit took a long time, and we returned home late for lunch.· Downloading audio files via a modem takes a long time.it takes (somebody) a long time (to do something) · It took a long time to get to know him, but we became good friends in the end.· I've never done one of these tests before - it took me a long time.· It takes a long time for people in this community to accept you.
► time-consuming a method, activity or process that is time-consuming takes a long time especially because it contains a lot of stages or separate pieces of work: · Repairs can be time-consuming and expensive.· Caring for a disabled child is a time-consuming, but ultimately rewarding, job.· We wanted to avoid costly, time-consuming legislation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► too
taking a long time to do: · It would be far too time-consuming.· Enquiry methods often seemed too time-consuming ....
► very· But it will be very time-consuming for secretarial staff if there are a great many.· It is also a very time-consuming process as it of course doubles the viewing time to select what is to be edited.· Moulding planes are excellent to work with, but the job of producing long lengths of moulding can be very time-consuming.· Needless to say, starting that particular sewer again is very time-consuming, and the whole thing's against the clock!· It can be very time-consuming and stressful.
NOUN► process· Starting the time-consuming process of interviewing childminders all over again was a daunting prospect.· It had to petition for enforcement to the U. S. Court of Appeals, which could be a very time-consuming process.· It is also a very time-consuming process as it of course doubles the viewing time to select what is to be edited.· The production of bibliographies and handbooks is a time-consuming process.· It will be a time-consuming process.· The disadvantage is that it is a time-consuming process and you will have a lot more teething problems when first running the system.· Pattern making is a time-consuming process that must be repeated for every design prototype.
► task· But finding other, more generalized, illustrations is a time-consuming task.· The first is to increase the ease and reduce the cost of performing previously expensive, time-consuming tasks.· The time-consuming tasks of keeping families clean and fed were for the most part carried out with wholly inadequate equipment in depressing surroundings.· This is a time-consuming task as the information on software is widely distributed between the printed and institutional sources.· In the autumn, a time-consuming task is the raking up of leaves.
a complex and time-consuming process