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CAPITAL-INTENSIVE

Specialty Definition: CAPITAL-INTENSIVE

DomainDefinition

Business

The notion by which the dominant role of the capital factor in a business is shown in comparison with the labour factor. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CAPITAL-INTENSIVE

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Norway

High blue-collar wages contribute to the use of relatively capital-intensive technologies in Norwegian industry. (references)

Nigeria

Successive Nigerian Governments have failed to achieve a diversification of the economy away from its dependence on the capital-intensive oil sector. (references)

Taiwan

In the 1980s, focus shifted toward increasingly sophisticated, capital-intensive and technology-intensive products for export and toward developing the service sector. (references)

Political Economy

HAITI

Wages appear to be somewhat higher in the more capital-intensive industries producing for the local market. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CAPITAL-INTENSIVE

"CAPITAL-INTENSIVE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CAPITAL-INTENSIVE" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3756,631

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CAPITAL-INTENSIVE

Language Translations for "CAPITAL-INTENSIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

kapitalkrævende (highly capitalised), kapitalintensiv (highly capitalised). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kapitaalintensief (highly capitalised). (various references)

   

French

  

capitalistique (highly capitalised), Ã forte proportion de capital (highly capitalised). (various references)

   

German

  

kapitalintensiv (capital intensive, capitalintensive). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έντασης κεφαλαίου (highly capitalised). (various references)

   

Italian

  

fortemente capitalizzato (highly capitalised). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apital-intensivecay

   

Portuguese

  

de alto coeficiente de capital (highly capitalised). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

требующий больших капиталовложений, капиталоемкий. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

con alta proporción de capital (highly capitalised). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CAPITAL-INTENSIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-i-i-l-n-n-p-s-t-t-v"

-5 letters: anticipants, anticipates, captivities, inactivates, instinctive, licentiates, penitential, pentavalent, vaticinates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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