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. Stacy Johnson:

   It sounds like it might be labor-intensive for the hospitals and docs, having just gone through the transition to EHRs (electronic health records), I am acutely aware of all the glitches and interfacing issues that can happen. Furthermore, there are multiple EHR programs out there. No two hospitals operate them the same.

2. 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.

3. Brendan Dwyer:

   A lot of math, statistics, dispensed through the mail. It was very labor intensive. ... It wasn't customizable.

4. 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.

5. Tara Reed:

   I’d started to get interested in fine art, and it struck me how annoying and labor-intensive it would be to find art I liked for my new place, for food, music, fashion, movies, I could just tap an app and get a personal recommendation. But the fine-art world hadn’t caught up to that.