TIME-CONSUMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does time-consuming mean? 

• TIME-CONSUMING (adjective)
  The adjective TIME-CONSUMING has 1 sense:

1. of a task that takes time and patience

  Familiarity information: TIME-CONSUMING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIME-CONSUMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a task that takes time and patience

Similar:

long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)

 Context examples 

The most commonly used material for producing solar panels is crystalline silicon, but to achieve efficient energy conversion requires an expensive and time-consuming production process.

(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)

Studying the placenta in humans is challenging: it is time-consuming, subject to a great deal of variability and potentially risky for the fetus.

(Researchers design placenta-on-a-chip to better understand pregnancy, NIH)

Maróth pointed out it would have been much more costly and time-consuming to research mortar technology than to acquire it this way.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)