maquiladora
noun
Meaning
- 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.
Etymology / origin
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish maquiladora, from maquilar (“assemble”).
- maquiladora(es-MX)→
- maquiladora (English)
- Relations: bor
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