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say it: ma-kwi-LAD-ur-uh
maquiladora is a noun 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". It carries one recorded sense.
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
United States
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for maquiladora come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.