stakhanovite
/stəˈkɑːnəvaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An extremely productive or hardworking worker, especially in the former USSR, who may earn special rewards; a workaholic.
adj
Pertaining to a Stakhanovite; heroically hardworking.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Stakhanovite.
Example Sentences
- "Nevertheless, few outstanding Stakhanovites remained at the bench for very long. Even if they stayed on the enterprise payroll, they ceased to be workers, becoming instead living icons."
- "Kolkhozniki were soon attacking the Stakhanovites with abandon, beating them up, destroying their animals, even killing them.⁴⁰ For obvious reasons, collective farm management and even village authorities were often also not eager to see labor norms increased and colluded in these attacks."
- "In mid-1936, the steel plant's deputy director, Khazanov, revealed that according to factory administration data there were 3,663 Stackhanovites at the steel plant, but according to the records of the trade union committee, there were 4,441. “In our shops,” he commented, “there are insufficiently precise criteria for determining Stakhanovites.”"
- "Perhaps he was convinced that a more Stakhanovite nation would, simply because of its absolute ethical commitment to community and service, in some way decide to take from the rich and give to the poor; […]"
- "The great galvanised iron shed where the valves were made was a cacophonous and tumultuous place, full of Stakhanovite workers torturing plugs of super-heavy metal with screaming drill bits."
- "You've got to work hard to be considered the most miserable part of Russia, which makes Murmansk the most Stakhanovite city in Russia."
Etymology
From Stakhanov + -ite, named after Russian coal miner Alexei Grigoryevich Stakhanov (Aleksei Grigor’evich Stakhanov) whose prodigious output was publicised by Stalin as part of a campaign in 1935.