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What does labor-intensive mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word labor-intensive? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (American) Requiring a great deal of work, especially physical and manual effort versus capital.
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As agricultural workers are affected by the disease, they tend to plant fewer hectares and less labor-intensive crops.
Blinded review as a method to measure the true error rate is labor-intensive.
Against such a view as his, it can be argued that touring something as cumbrous and labor-intensive as opera is an expensive business.
Removing the larvae by hand by slitting the stem and digging out the grubs with a knife is labor-intensive, but effective.
A fence may seem like a labor-intensive and artistically challenged project, but it doesn't have to be.
Many developing countries are now efficient producers of manufactured products, especially labor-intensive ones such as textiles and electronics.

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