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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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We are seeing a migration of labor-intensive industrial activities to low-cost countries.
Many Arab dishes, like stuffed zucchini or green peppers and stuffed grape or cabbage leaves, are highly 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.
A fence may seem like a labor-intensive and artistically challenged project, but it doesn't have to be.
As agricultural workers are affected by the disease, they tend to plant fewer hectares and less labor-intensive crops.
The sub-projects will be highly labor-intensive, generating jobs and incomes for the rural poor.

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