Definition of Intensive

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Intensive

Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.

Characterized by persistence; intent; unremitted; assiduous; intense.

Serving to give force or emphasis; as, an intensive verb or preposition.

That which intensifies or emphasizes; an intensive verb or word.

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.

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Intensive Quotations

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
Albert Ellis

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Harold Wilson

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
Pierre de Coubertin

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.
Susan George

We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.
Warren Christopher

My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
Ralph Merkle

After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.
Steven Hatfill

He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.
Shawn Fanning

It's real time intensive so there's not much time for goofing around, but we are really close and we have a good time with each other. It's a great group.
Will Estes

Intensive Translations

intensive in Afrikaans is intens
intensive in Dutch is sterk, fel, intens, intensief
intensive in Finnish is voimakas
intensive in French is intense
intensive in German is intensiv
intensive in Italian is intensivo
intensive in Spanish is intenso, violento
intensive in Swedish is intensiva

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