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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: assembly plant
History
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish maquiladora, from maquilar (“assemble”).
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