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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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Many developing countries are now efficient producers of manufactured products, especially labor-intensive ones such as textiles and electronics.
Many Arab dishes, like stuffed zucchini or green peppers and stuffed grape or cabbage leaves, are highly labor-intensive.
Mahogany cutting and removal were dramatically more labor-intensive than logwood.
The sub-projects will be highly labor-intensive, generating jobs and incomes for the rural poor.
As agricultural workers are affected by the disease, they tend to plant fewer hectares and less labor-intensive crops.
Some people milk the does twice a day and give the kids bottles, which is labor-intensive but helps accustom kids to human handling.

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