Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
labour-intensive
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By contrast, the local authorities have mainly helped small businesses in more labour-intensive industries.
▪ For the most part, these contract workers work under the supervision of permanent staff, performing more labour-intensive tasks.
▪ Like all forms of animation, this is time-consuming, labour-intensive and, therefore, expensive.
▪ Reductions in spending on labour-intensive services increase unemployment and hence social security costs.
▪ The project is what you might call labour-intensive.
▪ What they have to say throws doubt on previous inferences about how labour-intensive Maya agricultural techniques were, at least at San Antonio.
▪ Work on site, however, even in the 1980s remains fairly labour-intensive.
Wiktionary
labour-intensive
a. (alternative form of labor-intensive English) alt. (alternative form of labor-intensive English)
WordNet
labour-intensive
adj. requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital; "cottage industries are labor intensive" [syn: labor-intensive]