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What (who) is Intensive - definition

Intensive; Intensive prefix; Intensive suffix

Intensive         
·noun That which intensifies or emphasizes; an intensive verb or word.
II. Intensive ·adj Characterized by persistence; intent; unremitted; assiduous; intense.
III. Intensive ·adj Serving to give force or emphasis; as, an intensive verb or preposition.
IV. Intensive ·adj Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.
V. Intensive ·add. ·adj Designating, or pertaining to, any system of farming or horticulture, usually practiced on small pieces of land, in which the soil is thoroughly worked and fertilized so as to get as much return as possible;
- opposed to extensive.
intensive         
a.
1.
Intensifying, emphatic, serving to add force.
2.
Capable of intensification.
intensive         
1.
Intensive activity involves concentrating a lot of effort or people on one particular task in order to try to achieve a great deal in a short time.
...several days and nights of intensive negotiations...
ADJ: usu ADJ n
intensively
Ruth's parents opted to educate her intensively at home.
ADV: ADV with v
2.
Intensive farming involves producing as many crops or animals as possible from your land, usually with the aid of chemicals.
...intensive methods of rearing poultry.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
intensively
Will they farm the rest of their land less intensively?
ADV: ADV with v

Wikipedia

Intensive word form

In grammar, an intensive word form is one which denotes stronger, more forceful, or more concentrated action relative to the root on which the intensive is built. Intensives are usually lexical formations, but there may be a regular process for forming intensives from a root. Intensive formations, for example, existed in Proto-Indo-European, and in many of the Semitic languages.

Examples of use of Intensive
1. Exporters of skill– and research– and–development–intensive products will benefit more than those more reliant on labour–intensive production.
2. Only regular, intensive activities were beneficial.
3. Intensive negotiations are indeed already under way.
4. "It‘s artifact–intensive. . . . There‘s no interactive.
5. CALDERON (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): We are labor–intensive.