maquiladora
/ˌmɑkɪləˈdɔːɹə/noun
maquiladora is a noun meaning “An assembly plant in Mexico owned by a company from the United States or another foreign country, using cheap local labour and imported components…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-Q-U-I-L-A-D-O-R-A and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 39 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of maquiladora is maquiladoras.
What does maquiladora mean?
noun
- 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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce maquiladora?
- /ˌmɑkɪləˈdɔːɹə/
Maquiladora has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of maquiladora
- maquiladoras plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is maquiladora?
Maquiladora appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Maquiladora in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an assembly plant in Mexico near the border with the United States:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | maquiladora |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does maquiladora come from?
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish maquiladora, from maquilar (“assemble”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).