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maquiladora definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border); parts are shipped into Mexico and the finished product is shipped back across the border

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Mexican Spanish (planta, empresa) maquiladora, from maquilar to process (material) for a fee, from maquila processing fee, multure, from Spanish, multure, from Arabic dialect mak?la measure of grain Date: 1976 a foreign-owned factory in Mexico at which imported parts are assembled by lower-paid workers into products for export