capital-intensive

• capital intensive

capital-intensive (comparative more capital-intensive, superlative most capital-intensive)

1. Needing a relatively large expenditure on capital, especially when compared to that spent on labour.
   • 1999, Karen Parker, Albert Fishlow, Growing Apart: The Causes and Consequences of Global Wage Inequality:

     Petroleum is the most productive and capital-intensive industry while apparel is the least productive and least capital intensive.

• labor-intensive, work-intensive