ejido

plural ejidos

1. A Mexican cooperative farm.

   They made camp in an oakgrove beside the river and built a fire and sat while the girl prepared their dinner out of the bounty they’d carried off from the ejido.

   1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

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   Ejidos are land-grant communities organized by the federal government. Each family has a plot, which cannot be sold and can only be inherited by one person. Each ejido member has a vote at ejido meetings.

   1989, Mary I O'Connor, Descendants of Totoliguoqui: Ethnicity and Economics in the Mayo Valley, page 71

   Today, the ejido sector (including both new ejidos created by the land reform and lands restituted to indigenous communities) is composed of 28,058 communities with 3.5 million ejidatario households, 18 million individuals, and some 70 percent of the rural population.

   2000, Masahiko Aoki, Yūjirō Hayami, Communities and Markets in Economic Development, page 323