labour-intensive industry
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflabour-intensiveandindustry
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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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industry
noun
uk/ˈɪn.də.stri/us/ˈɪn.də.stri/
the companies and activities involved in the process of producing goods for sale, especially in a factory or ...
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In alabour-intensiveindustrysuch as retailing, it would be unthinkable to attempt to continue rigid price control when wages have been let go free.
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Whereas it used to be alabour-intensiveindustryit is now a capital-intensive one.
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In combination, therefore, they are designed to attract, or in some cases to retain, both capital-intensive andlabour-intensiveindustryfor development areas.
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It has moved from being alabour-intensiveindustryto become one that it capital-intensive.
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It is alabour-intensiveindustrywith good industrial relations.
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I would not object if a new electronics firm were to set up in these areas, and electronics is a verylabour-intensiveindustry.
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Alabour-intensiveindustrymeans that any large-scale closure would lead to increased unemployment.
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Costs are rising and it is alabour-intensiveindustry.
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The result, in alabour-intensiveindustry, has been sharp fare increases.
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Of course the arts are an extremelylabour-intensiveindustry.
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There is the classic example of textiles which, notwithstanding a considerable degree of mechanisation in recent years, still remains a relativelylabour-intensiveindustry.
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This is equally true of anylabour-intensiveindustrywith a declining manpower requirement.
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One is the migration oflabour-intensiveindustryto where labour is cheaper.
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It is alabour-intensiveindustryand makes a great contribution to the standard of living of any country.
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The labour force of alabour-intensiveindustryis varied according to the business coming forward from year to year.
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We need morelabour-intensiveindustry, and we need the magnets to pull it here.
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Moreover, it will provide a huge boost to employment in thislabour-intensiveindustry.
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It is not a question oflabour-intensiveindustryagainst capital-intensive industry.
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Do they realise how rapidly it is changing to a capital intensive from alabour-intensiveindustry?
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Rationalisation and modernisation of the railways, once alabour-intensiveindustry, has been going on apace for a number of years.
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