Maquiladora Definition

mä-kēlä-dōrä
maquiladoras
noun
A manufacturing facility under foreign ownership in Mexico and typically located near the U.S. border: it is set up to take advantage of low taxes and wages.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Maquiladora

Noun

Singular:
maquiladora
Plural:
maquiladoras

Origin of Maquiladora

  • American Spanish place where the miller's fee is paid, maquiladora from Spanish maquila portion received by the miller in return for milling one's grain from Old Spanish from Arabic makīla measured, measure of capacity feminine passive participle of kāla to measure kwl in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Spanish

    From Wiktionary

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