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labour-intensive work

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meanings of labour-intensiveand work


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labour-intensive
adjective
uk /ˌleɪ.bər.ɪnˈten.sɪv/ us /ˌleɪ.bɚ.ɪnˈten.sɪv/
Industries and methods that are labour-intensive need a lot ...
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work
noun
uk /wɜːk/ us /wɝːk/
an activity, such as a job, that a person uses physical or mental effort to do, usually ...
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Examples of labour-intensive work


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In giving money to the fund, is any account taken of the employment opportunities provided by labour-intensivework?
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There is an incredible amount of labour-intensivework crying out to be done.
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If we can reduce the use of energy-intensive work, we may well increase the use of labour-intensivework.
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The fact is that there is work to be done in every community, and it is mainly labour-intensivework.
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Others are used, not for labour-intensivework, but for storage facilities, and so on.
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Much energy-saving expenditure results in highly labour-intensivework.
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It may be achieved by allowing labour-intensivework still to be done in certain quarters.
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The chances are that in an age of science and technology all labour-intensivework is relatively underpaid and will probably be more underpaid as time goes on.
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This is demanding and labour-intensivework.
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There have been great medical advances and much more complicated treatments are given; and it is impossible to do this very labour-intensivework without increasing staff.
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Because of the labour-intensivework involved with animation, it was cheaper for studios to make live-action films, so animation was eschewed.
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The poor being perfectly adapted to their labour-intensivework, an "accommodation" to poverty makes this culturally ingrained and the poor and their offspring tend to stay in that vicious circle.
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This subprogramme focuses on reducing food and nutritional deficits, reducing vulnerability in food deficit zones and affected population groups, and creating massive employment through labour-intensive works targeting vulnerable categories.
It will continue to undertake labour-intensive works of an environmental, amenity, cultural, agricultural and social nature.
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