time-consuming
(of an action) requiring or wasting much time.
Origin of time-consuming
1Words Nearby time-consuming
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How to use time-consuming in a sentence
(1) Only charities and non-profits should ask for unpaid workers to staff their operations or undertake time-consuming projects.
Yes, I am familiar with people asking me to do time-consuming projects for free—I get at least one such request every day.
Garry says the biggest problem with this test is in its high-tech, time-consuming method.
This New Ebola Test Is As Easy As a Pregnancy Test, So Why Aren’t We Using It? | Abby Haglage | October 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSo, he has to deal with what will inevitably be time-consuming and complicated legal wrangling.
Therapy is not only time-consuming, but inherently expensive.
Yet the rigorous application of the method is time-consuming and life is short.
It is a time consuming method and with wet mixtures it has nothing to recommend it.
Concrete Construction | Halbert P. GilletteThus the men were at this time consuming nearly double the Chittenden allowance.
How to Live | Irving Fisher and Eugene FiskChasing after Venus, after coming back to its orbit, could be done, but it would prove time-consuming and difficult to plan.
The Secret of the Ninth Planet | Donald Allen WollheimThey could not chance a collision with one of these—yet to work out the whereabouts of all of them was impossibly time-consuming.
The Secret of the Ninth Planet | Donald Allen Wollheim
British Dictionary definitions for time-consuming
taking up or involving a great deal of time
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