maquiladora

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maquiladora

/ˌmɑkɪləˈdɔːɹə/

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

noun maquiladoras

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.

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

Português	maquiladora

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@misc{maquiladora_2026,
  title = {maquiladora},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/maquiladora},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}