Meanings
nounvoisko (plural voiskos)
plural voiskos
- historicalA self-governing administrative community of Cossacks in the Russian Empire.
The voiskos demanded more and more concessions – both economic and political – as the price of their military service.
1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2013, page 661 more example
n the latter two cases, the problem of finding people to fill out the voiskos was solved partly by the transfer of Cossacks from the Don, Orenburg and Zabaikal voiskos.
1987, Robert H. McNeal, Tsar And Cossack 1855-1914, page 21
Origin
- Russianвойско“host, army”
- Englishvoisko
From Russian войско (vojsko, “host, army”).
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