labour-intensiveadjective
UK US labor-intensive uk/ˌleɪ.bər.ɪnˈten.sɪv/us/ˌleɪ.bɚ.ɪnˈten.sɪv/Industries and methods that are labour-intensive need a lot of workers:
A lot of farming techniques have been abandoned because they were too labour-intensive.
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- clerk
- honorary
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- office junior
- probation
- professionally
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- sweated
- wilderness
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Complicated and difficult to do