"labour-intensive" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more labour-intensive",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most labour-intensive",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "labour-intensive (comparative more labour-intensive, superlative most labour-intensive)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 39",
          "text": "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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        "British standard spelling of labor-intensive."
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        [
          "labor-intensive",
          "labor-intensive#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
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            "US"
          ],
          "word": "labor-intensive"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "labour-intensive"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more labour-intensive",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most labour-intensive",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "labour-intensive (comparative more labour-intensive, superlative most labour-intensive)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 39",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "British standard spelling of labor-intensive."
      ],
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          "labor-intensive",
          "labor-intensive#English"
        ]
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    }
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    {
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        "US"
      ],
      "word": "labor-intensive"
    }
  ],
  "word": "labour-intensive"
}