Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

labour-intensive

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English

Syllables: labour-in-ten-sive
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

British standard spelling of labor-intensive.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Inflected Forms

more labour-intensive (comparative) most labour-intensive (superlative) labor-intensive (alternative)

Synonyms

labor-intensive

Questions

What does labour-intensive mean?: British standard spelling of labor-intensive.

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