| Definitions | | Stakhanovite |
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noun
- An extremely productive or hard-working worker, especially in the former USSR, who may earn special rewards.
adjective
- Pertaining to a Stakhanovite.
- 1993: The great galvanised iron shed where the valves were made was a cacophonous and tumultuous place, full of workers torturing plugs of super-heavy metal with screaming drill bits. " Will Self, My Idea of Fun
Etymology: Named from w:Aleksei Grigorievich Stakhanov, Aleksei Grigor"evich Stakhanov (Ñ ÑÑÑÑ ÑÑ), a Russian coalminer whose prodigious output was publicised by Stalin as part of a 1935 campaign.
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