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MAQUILADORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does maquiladora mean? 

MAQUILADORA (noun)
  The noun MAQUILADORA has 1 sense:

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 borderplay

  Familiarity information: MAQUILADORA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MAQUILADORA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("maquiladora" is a kind of...):

assembly plant (a factory where manufactured parts are assembled into a finished product)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)


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