maquiladora

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish maquiladora.

Noun

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 2013, p. 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, Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian, 4 May:

     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.

Translations

an assembly plant in Mexico near the border with the United States

• Portuguese: maquiladora f
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Portuguese

Noun

maquiladora f (plural maquiladoras)

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

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Spanish

Etymology

maquilar +‎ -dora

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /makilaˈdoɾa/ [ma.ki.laˈð̞o.ɾa]

Noun

maquiladora f (plural maquiladoras)

1. assembly plant

   Synonym: maquila

Descendants

• → English: maquiladora

Further reading

• “maquiladora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014