work-intensive
adjEtymology From work + intensive.
1
Focusing on, requiring, or exacting a great deal of work or effort; worksome; labour-intensive.
- Highly work-intensive people seek to have a profound influence in shaping their society.1991, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, The Hero's Farewell:
- We now focus our discussion on the DTU for the group of children who select into the less work-intensive sequence being compared.2004, José Canals-Cerdá, Cristóbal Ridao-Cano, The Dynamics of School and Work in Rural Bangladesh:
- Synonyms
- labor-intensive
- Antonyms
- capital-intensive