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labor-intensive

/ley-ber-in-ten-siv/US // ˈleɪ bər ɪnˈtɛn sɪv //

劳动密集型,劳动密集型的,劳力密集型,劳动强度大

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.

Examples

  • Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.

  • Public sector unions have also fractured the labor movement itself.

  • In Turkey, crime groups in border areas are exploiting the labor of Syrian male refugees who cannot find legitimate employment.

  • Many more illegal migrants face labor trafficking in Europe as they flee the conflict regions of North Africa and the Middle East.

  • In the summer of 2014, they both were sentenced to 4-1/2 years in a labor camp.

  • All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.

  • The blind Samson of labor will seize upon the pillars of society and bring them down in a common destruction.

  • The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.

  • Beggars are not abundant; but women are required to labor quite extensively in the fields.

  • Labor, so it was argued, was perpetually being saved by the constant introduction of new uses of machinery.