CAPITAL INTENSIVE
A business system or a sector that needs huge number of money and other monetary resources to create a service or good. A business is regarded as capital intensive according to the ratio of the capital needed to the worth of labor that is necessary.
Some sectors usually thought of as capital intensive include refining and oil production, transports and telecommunications such as airlines and railways.
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