labour-intensive

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labour-intensive (comparative more labour-intensive, superlative most labour-intensive)

  1. British standard spelling of labor-intensive.
    • 2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC:
      The French Dispatch has to be one of the most labour-intensive films in existence. It makes The Grand Budapest Hotel look as if it was improvised over a weekend and shot with a smartphone.
    • 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 39:
      In Britain, nearly 2,500 steam locomotives were built, 999 to new designs. Although the latter were modern, they were still labour-intensive to man and maintain, during a period of full employment when working for poor pay in the dirty railway environment was unattractive.

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