maquiladora

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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maquiladora (plural maquiladoras)

  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. [from 20th c.]
    • 2013, Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo, Simon & Schuster, page 114:
      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.
    • 2014 May 4, Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian:
      The girls were invariably captured while running errands in the centre of town, or on their way to or from work in the hundreds of maquiladoras: sweatshop assembly plants that constitute the economy of Juárez, manufacturing (for rock-bottom wages) the goods that America and Europe deem essential to keep their supermarket shelves and car-concession outlets stocked.

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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maquiladora f (plural maquiladoras)

  1. feminine singular of maquilador
  2. maquiladora (an assembly plant in Mexico near the border with the United States)

Spanish

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Etymology

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From maquilar +‎ -dora.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /makilaˈdoɾa/ [ma.ki.laˈð̞o.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -oɾa
  • Syllabification: ma‧qui‧la‧do‧ra

Noun

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maquiladora f (plural maquiladoras)

  1. assembly plant
    Synonym: maquila

Descendants

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  • English: maquiladora

Noun

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maquiladora f (plural maquiladoras)

  1. female equivalent of maquilador

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