labour-intensive

comparative more labour-intensive · superlative most labour-intensive · alternative labor-intensive

1. British standard spelling of labor-intensive.

   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.

   2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC

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   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.

   2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 39