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
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun high level or degree; the property of being intense
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Examples
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"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
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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.
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State subsidies to economic centralization and capital accumulation also artificially increase the capital-intensiveness of production and thereby the capitalization of the dominant firm.
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Department of Commerce Ranked 55 industry sectors by their level of IT intensiveness.
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Department of Commerce Ranked 55 industry sectors by their level of IT intensiveness.
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State subsidies to economic centralization and capital accumulation also artificially increase the capital-intensiveness of production and thereby the capitalization of the dominant firm.
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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
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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
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"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."
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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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