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:
maquiladoraPlural:
maquiladorasOrigin of Maquiladora
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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
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