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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 37 | 56,631 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 | Îντασης κεφαλαίου (highly capitalised). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fortemente capitalizzato (highly capitalised). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | apital-intensivecay de alto coeficiente de capital (highly capitalised). (various references) требующий больших капиталовложений, капиталоемкий. (various references) con alta proporción de capital (highly capitalised). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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