ejido
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of ejido
1885–90; < Mexican Spanish; Spanish: common fields (immediately outside a village) < Latin exitus exit 1
Example Sentences
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“Who are the people? Five people? Twenty people? The oldest person in town? One thousand people? The ejido commissioner?”
From The Verge • Feb. 12, 2022
The complications with the Wellses’ home stem from the fact that the property was part of an ejido, a plot of communally owned land once used for agriculture.
From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2019
In 1973, the Mexican government designated 25,000 acres around Tulum as an ejido or collective farm, under a policy to provide land for impoverished peasants and encourage settlement in unpopulated areas.
From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2017
The vehicles were purchased by Mendoza's ejido, or communal farm, on easy-credit terms arranged by the government.
From Time Magazine Archive
D�az Ordaz, faithful to tradition, cannot bring himself to modify the ejido system.
From Time Magazine Archive
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