maquiladora

English

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish maquiladora, from maquilar (“assemble”).

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 2013, p. 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, Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian, 4 May:
  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.

an assembly plant in Mexico near the border with the United States

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish maquiladora, from maquilar (“assemble”).

maquiladora f (plural maquiladoras)

feminine singular of maquilador
maquiladora (an assembly plant in Mexico near the border with the United States)

maquilar +‎ -dora

maquiladora f (plural maquiladoras)

maquiladora f (plural maquiladoras)