Crossword clues for maquiladora
Wiktionary
n. an assembly plant in Mexico near the border with the United States.
WordNet
n. 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
Wikipedia
In Mexico, a maquiladora or maquila is a manufacturing operation, where factories import certain material and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly, processing, or manufacturing and then export the assembled, processed and/or manufactured products, sometimes back to the raw materials' country of origin. They are an example of special economic zones as seen in many countries.
Usage examples of "maquiladora".
Just like the maquiladora plants, the amative establishments that served their employees operated on a twenty-four-hour work schedule.
The evening maquiladora shift was still hard at work, laboring in the vast spread of manufacturing and assembly plants and their attendant facilities, and the bulk of the night shift wouldn't come online for another hour yet.
From its location on the next-to-the-top floor of the Federal Police Headquarters, Nogales Division (the top floor being armored and reserved for ballistics and rapid-reaction deployment via chopter and vertiprop), a visitor could see halfway across the Strip, past office towers and green-garbed codos, past humming maquiladoras and malls, and dream of the distant cool waters of the Golfo California.