labour-intensive

• Qualifie un processus, une méthode ou une activité qui exige une grande quantité de travail humain et d'efforts, par rapport au capital ou au matériel utilisé.

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.

   à forte intensité de main-d'œuvre

   • 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.

   Synonymeslabor-intensivelaborious

   Antonymesautomatedmechanized