English Explanatory Dictionary

twenty-five-thousander

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

twenty-five-thousander twenty-five-thousanders

Etymology

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

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