labor-intensive

• Beschreibt einen Prozess oder Wirtschaftszweig, der im Vergleich zum Kapitaleinsatz oder zur Technik einen hohen Einsatz menschlicher Arbeitskraft und Anstrengung erfordert.

Describes a process or industry that requires a large amount of human work and effort relative to capital or machinery.

1. Requiring much manual workB2formal

   Describing a process or industry that needs a large amount of human effort and time, often with less reliance on machinery or automation.

   arbeitsintensiv

   • Harvesting crops by hand is a labor-intensive task.
   • The construction of the cathedral was extremely labor-intensive.
   • Small-scale farming is often more labor-intensive than large agribusiness.

   Synonymearduousbackbreakingeffortfullaboriousstrenuous

   Antonymeautomatedmechanized