capital-intensive

See also: capital intensive

English

Alternative forms

• capital intensive

Adjective

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.

Antonyms

• labor-intensive, work-intensive

Translations

needing large capital expenditure

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 資本密集／资本密集 (zīběn mìjí)

• Danish: kapitalkrævende
• Estonian: kapitalimahukas
• Finnish: pääomavaltainen, pääomaintensiivinen
• German: kapitalintensiv
• Greek: εντάσεως κεφαλαίου (el) (entáseos kefalaíou), έντασης κεφαλαίου (éntasis kefalaíou)
• Hungarian: tőkeigényes (hu)
• Polish: kapitałochłonny (pl)
• Portuguese: de capital intensivo
• Russian: капиталоёмкий (ru) (kapitalojómkij)
• Swedish: kapitalkrävande
• Ukrainian: капіталомістки́й (kapitalomistkýj), капіталоє́мний (kapitalojémnyj)