twenty-five-thousander

noun

One of the approximately 25,000 industrial workers who voluntarily left their homes to do rural work in the kolkhozes in the USSR in the early 1930s.

OriginRussian двадцатипятитысячники →
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Meanings

nountwenty-five-thousander (plural twenty-five-thousanders)

plural twenty-five-thousanders

  1. historicalOne of the approximately 25,000 industrial workers who voluntarily left their homes to do rural work in the kolkhozes in the USSR in the early 1930s.

Origin

  1. Russianдвадцатипятитысячники
  2. Englishtwenty-five-thousander

From twenty-five thousand + -er, a calque of Russian двадцатипятитысячники (dvadcatipjatitysjačniki).

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