ejido
noun
a Mexican farm communally owned and operated by the inhabitants of a village on an individual or cooperative basis.
ejidos
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pluralof ejido.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A big part of the Jaguar Alliance’s conservation work has been orchestrating deals between the government and local farming communities called ejidos.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
All have been found to come from ejidos, unfenced community lands in Mexico, or from larger private Mexican ranches.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2021
Landowner Cedillo favored small, privately-owned individual farms, objected to the communal ejidos set up by Cardenas.
From Time Magazine Archive
One reason is Mexico's overenthusiastic land reform, whereby most of the big haciendas have been atomized into thousands of tiny, four-to twelve-acre ejidos and given to peasants.
From Time Magazine Archive
At some of the large ejidos on the dry, rocky central plateaus, resettled peasants now have irrigated fields, modern machinery, new roads to market, radios and refrigerators, and tuition-free trade schools.
From Time Magazine Archive
