labour-intensive

• Beschreibt einen Prozess oder Wirtschaftszweig, der im Vergleich zu Kapital oder 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 laborB2formal

   Describing a process or industry that needs a large amount of human work relative to machinery or capital investment.

   arbeitsintensiv

   • The textile industry is highly labour-intensive in many developing countries.
   • Harvesting crops by hand is a labour-intensive task.
   • The company moved away from labour-intensive manufacturing to automated production.

   Synonymelabor-intensivelaborious

   Antonymeautomatedmechanized