Antonym: extensive. Similar words: extensive, intensity, offensive, expensive, defensive, inexpensive, intense, apprehensive. Meaning: [ɪn'tensɪv] n. a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies. adj. 1. characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form 2. tending to give force or emphasis 3. of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor.
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91. The second is, if there are to be intensive care units, what share of resources should they have?
92. The current landscape of the site is bleak, suffering from the effects of intensive farming.
93. It had gone remarkably well; his intensive training had paid off handsomely.
94. That was fine when manpower was cheap and farming was labour intensive, when families worked in the fields man and boy.
95. Accordingly, they have been the subject of intensive research and fierce controversy.
96. Which is why I am studying very hard, taking an intensive course with other students younger than my son, Charles.
97. They said they didn't have strong views on intensive farming.
98. Her predecessor, Karl-Heinz Funke, was himself a farmer and an enthusiastic supporter of intensive agricultural methods.
99. Jensen remains in the intensive care unit of the hospital, she said.
100. However, Lee survived but spent 16 days in the intensive care unit and a month in hospital.
101. As in other parts of the continent, land in the Pantanal is under pressure from intensive farming.
102. Once Shamir had rejected this invitation, Peres entered into intensive negotiations in an attempt to achieve a majority.
103. The most intensive studies on the field have been made on populations of three species of Ranunculus and on Trifolium repens.
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104. It may therefore become economically and politically expedient to encourage a shift to more labour intensive methods of primary production.
105. The mayor then ordered the police to launch an intensive attack upon the convention.
106. These procedures will also make the database available for the more intensive study of local communities.
107. We now realise the importance of hedgerows, of small fields, of clean rivers and of less intensive agriculture.
108. The increasing adoption of less intensive agriculture should further encourage a hare recovery.
109. It was at this stage that the intensive training in navigation paid off.
110. Also of concern is not only the cost but the amount of fossil energy subsidy required for intensive agriculture.
111. Includes a special Protein Intensive Treatment which is mixed with the waving lotion to protect and restore hair during perming.
112. Intensive political contact in what is a relatively small country, has tended to soften and shift policy disagreements.
113. Intensive Subject Assessment Have you had a subject assessor visit recently?
114. We have had public reports of a mortally ill little girl being unable to gain treatment in a paediatric intensive care unit.
115. The intensive use of capital for highly automated products leads to a reduction in the importance of manpower.
116. The isolation or bunching together of such pupils only provides them with poor role models and intensive interaction with other disturbed children.
117. It's put him in intensive care, dependent on an intravenous drip for nourishment.
118. He said he supposed it was and offered to show them into the Intensive Care room which had a hot drinks machine.
119. Children's hospital care condemned A report has shown intensive care facilities for critically-ill children are seriously lacking.
120. The production system is more capital intensive and rigid, making modifications expensive.
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