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maquiladoras

maquiladoras is the plural of maquiladora.

Meaning of maquiladora

Noun

maquiladora (plural maquiladoras)

  1. 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.
    • 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.2013, Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo, Simon & Schuster, page 114

Questions about maquiladoras

What is maquiladoras the plural of?
Maquiladoras is the plural of maquiladora.

Words near maquiladoras in the dictionary

  1. maqui
  2. maquia
  3. Maquiapo
  4. maquila
  5. maquiladora
  6. maquiladoras
  7. maquilas
  8. maquillage
  9. maquillages
  10. Maquiritare
  11. Maquiritares

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