1. A system of communal land ownership in Mexico, in which land is held collectively by a village community and distributed to individual farmers for cultivation.
Usage: Spanish origin; primarily used in historical and Mexican agricultural contexts

Examples

• The ejido system was established in Mexico to provide land to peasant farmers.
• Many rural communities in Mexico still operate under the ejido model of shared land ownership.
• The ejido represented an important reform in Mexican agricultural policy during the 20th century.
• Farmers in the ejido worked together to manage the communal land resources.
• The government redistributed land through the ejido program to address inequality.