Maquiladora

noun

noun ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An assembly plant in Mexico owned by a company from the United States or another foreign country, using cheap local labour and imported components, and which then exports its products to the company's country of origin; also (by extension) similar factories in other countries.

    "If such maquiladora projects are to be the model for Haiti's economic future, they will simply create future generations of sweatshop labor at subsistence wages."

  2. 2
    an assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border); parts are shipped into Mexico and the finished product is shipped back across the border wordnet

Synonyms

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maquila

Example

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"If such maquiladora projects are to be the model for Haiti's economic future, they will simply create future generations of sweatshop labor at subsistence wages."

Etymology

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish maquiladora, from maquilar (“assemble”).

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