ejido

American  

[e-hee-thaw] / ɛˈhi ðɔ /

noun

plural

ejidos

1. a Mexican farm communally owned and operated by the inhabitants of a village on an individual or cooperative basis.

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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

“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

Yet half a century later, less than one-tenth of the country's acreage is under cultivation, much of it in the semi-arid north and much of that belonging to the controversial ejido collectives.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bela�nde knows the les sons of Mexico's disastrous ejido system, does not intend to splinter the big. highly productive cotton and sugar estates into thousands of tiny plots, each barely able to support its owner.

From Time Magazine Archive