📖 Definitions of "Maquila"
noun
- 1
A maquiladora.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Maquila"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| maquiladoranoun | 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. |
| garmentnoun | A single item of clothing. |
| tollnoun | A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc. |
| medionoun | (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 2.3 L. |
| maquianoun | (historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of dry measure, equivalent to 0.8–1.2 liters in different 19th-century contexts. |
| celeminnoun | (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 4.6 liters. |
| millanoun | (historical) Spanish mile, a traditional Spanish unit of distance equivalent to about 1.4 km. |
| almudenoun | (historical, measure) A traditional Portuguese unit of liquid volume, equal to 14–26 liters. |
| sesmanoun | A surname from Spanish. |
| mezcalnoun | Alternative form of mescal. [A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave.] |
| millfulnoun | Enough to fill a mill. |
| mitenoun | Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari). |
| moionoun | (historical) A traditional Portuguese dry measure, equal to about 0.78–1.15 m³ at different places and times. |
| minanoun | (historical) A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver. |
| measenoun | (UK, dialect, dated) A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring. |
| mediumnoun | A format for communicating or presenting information. |
| messnoun | a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation |
| milesimanoun | (historical) An old Spanish coin worth one thousandth of the escudo. |
| mojonoun | (slang) Personal magnetism; charm; that which makes one successful and liked, viewed as an inherent power that can be present or absent. |
| millnoun | A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.) |
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