maquiladora
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- 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
- The typical maquiladora worker earns about $1.
- He always wondered how the maquiladora workers managed to make ends meet on incomes that were a fraction of their American counterparts'.
- He recently quit his $12-an-hour job as a chemical engineer at a maquiladora, where he mapped computer formulas for face creams.