maquiladora
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish maquiladora, from maquilar (“assemble”).
Noun edit
maquiladora (plural 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. [from 20th c.]
- 2013, Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo, Simon & Schuster, page 114:
- 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.
- 2014 May 4, Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian:
- The girls were invariably captured while running errands in the centre of town, or on their way to or from work in the hundreds of maquiladoras: sweatshop assembly plants that constitute the economy of Juárez, manufacturing (for rock-bottom wages) the goods that America and Europe deem essential to keep their supermarket shelves and car-concession outlets stocked.
Translations edit
an assembly plant in Mexico near the border with the United States
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Further reading edit
- “maquiladora”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
maquiladora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish maquiladora, from maquilar (“assemble”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
maquiladora f (plural maquiladoras)
- feminine singular of maquilador
- maquiladora (an assembly plant in Mexico near the border with the United States)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
maquiladora f (plural maquiladoras)
Descendants edit
- → English: maquiladora
Noun edit
maquiladora f (plural maquiladoras)
- female equivalent of maquilador
Further reading edit
- “maquiladora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014