Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character or quality of being intensive; intensity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being intensive; intensity.

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  • noun The condition of being intensive

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  • noun high level or degree; the property of being intense

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Examples

  • "If somebody could come in and erode that market share, it would be problematic in generating an investment, given the capital intensiveness of building a convention center."

    Groundwork Evens Odds for Genting Eliot Brown 2012

  • The problem is that no one (not even the scholars at Freepress) would give them the money to do so because of the capital intensiveness and the lack of a return.

    DPI Doesn’t Kill The Open Internet, Carriers Do 2009

  • State subsidies to economic centralization and capital accumulation also artificially increase the capital-intensiveness of production and thereby the capitalization of the dominant firm.

    Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – June – 06 2008

  • Department of Commerce Ranked 55 industry sectors by their level of IT intensiveness.

    Stephen's Lighthouse: Learning to Change 2008

  • Department of Commerce Ranked 55 industry sectors by their level of IT intensiveness.

    Stephen's Lighthouse: May 2008 Archives 2008

  • State subsidies to economic centralization and capital accumulation also artificially increase the capital-intensiveness of production and thereby the capitalization of the dominant firm.

    Carson in the Freeman: Hierarchy or the Market 2008

  • As befits their labor-intensiveness, the old houses command all the description, and the language with which Dew interprets the details she presents — "careful consideration" and "ponderous progression" — is fittingly leaden.

    A Close Read 2005

  • As befits their labor-intensiveness, the old houses command all the description, and the language with which Dew interprets the details she presents — "careful consideration" and "ponderous progression" — is fittingly leaden.

    A Close Read 2005

  • "It is for this reason that we must increasingly look to the leisure industry, because it is a sector which has the ability through its labour intensiveness and positive economic knock-on effects to address the challenges."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Nelson Hilton and David Erdman's prescient but brief remarks aside, the only contributor to engage reproduction with any intensity was John Grant, who, to his credit, adumbrated something not unlike the William Blake Archive in scale, comprehensiveness, and image-intensiveness.

    Introduction 2003

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