Synonyms for labor-intensive
la·bor-in·ten·sive

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1. labor-intensive, labour-intensiveadjective

   requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital

   "cottage industries are labor intensive"

   Synonyms:
   labour-intensive

   Antonyms:
   effortless

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1. List of paraphrases for "labor-intensive":

   labour-intensive, intensive

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1. Trevor Tauzer:

   For every $210 paid to rent a beehive, we put close to that much into it the whole year feeding the bees because of drought. We do all the health checks, which is labor-intensive, and we pay our workers full benefits.

2. Laurence Rees:

   Over the years we've developed a large number of contacts, particularly through the archives in the East, which enabled us to approach these people, it's incredibly labor intensive and incredibly expensive. In order to find one perpetrator, one person who pulls the trigger and shoots people, researchers have to go through the original SS records and trawl through thousands and thousands of names. They've got to compare them against trial records. They've often got to go to the Russian archives to see whether any of these people were prosecuted. Then they've got to go through phone books in Germany. They've got to try and trace relatives and so on….

3. Barbara Barrett:

   Space Force won't be measured by the number of people unlike for instance the Marine Corps, which is really a labor-intensive service, space Force is much more measured by the technology and the capabilities.

4. Kevin Garcia:

   If you look at the whole process of how paper is traditionally made, it involves chopping trees, adding chemicals and bleach to make pulp, using lots of water and then squeezing, drying and flattening it into sheets of paper, it's labor intensive, contributes to high carbon emission deforestation.

5. Adam Schefter:

   I've learned for a long time in this business not to discuss sources, or the process, or how stories are done, but I would just say that its a common practice to run information past sources. And in this particular case, during a labor intensive lockout that was a complicated subject that was new to understand. I took the extra rare step to run information past one of the people that I was talking to. You know, it was an important story to fans ; a host of others, and that's the situation.