Stakhanovite
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- noun
- /stəˈkɑːnəˌvaɪt/
- Archaic
- In everyday parlance, gender and national identities were fused into a heterogeneous yet interconnected discourse quite unlike that of the Stakhanovites.
Examples
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Once the Avdeev-Dubok plotline is resolved, the plot takes an unexpected turn: the characters are present at a congress of Stakhanovites called by Shakhov.
Academic text (2017) -
This ideological transformation can be read anthropologically as the Stakhanovite masculinization of Hungarian culture, which rejuvenated industrial production and fostered the implementation of social policies.
Academic text (1991) -
The "from each according to his abilities" requirement forces any ordinary person, short of a Stakhanovite, into an impossible position.
Academic text (1991) -
She is presented as a Stakhanovite worker:
Academic text (1995) -
The increasingly harsh economic climate of the 1990s has made the frankness of the 1985 interview a luxury, so readers will note with some weariness a return to the official line and to the presentation of Esmeralda as a Stakhanovite whose working day starts at 6 a.m. and ends at 7 p.m.
Academic text (1995) -
"In the vanguard of this newly invented tradition were the Stakhanovites, young men and women, mostly of poor blue-collar or peasant backgrounds, laboring to produce dramatically beyond established quotas."
Academic text (1991) -
The manager praised him as a Stakhanovite for consistently exceeding his sales targets.
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Her remarkable achievements at work earned her the title of Stakhanovite among her colleagues.
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Many admired the Stakhanovite workers for their dedication to exceeding production goals.
Synonyms
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A person who works very hard at their job
How Productive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Stakhanovite = Stakhanov (opaque) = Stakhanov + ite
The noun is transparently formed from the name Stakhanov and -ite, but its meaning is not predictable without knowing the Soviet historical reference.
Etymology
Stakhanovite comes from the miner Stakhanov, who became famous in the Soviet Union for doing much more work than normal and being publicly praised. That's why a Stakhanovite means 'a very productive worker' who goes beyond the usual targets.