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Stakhonovite

Stakhonovite is the alternative spelling of Stakhanovite.

Meaning of Stakhanovite

Noun

Stakhanovite (plural Stakhanovites)

  1. (historical) An extremely productive or hardworking worker, especially in the former USSR, who may earn special rewards; a workaholic.
    • 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.1990, Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935–1941, page 183

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Forms of Stakhonovite

pluralStakhonovites

Questions about Stakhonovite

What is Stakhonovite the alternative spelling of?
Stakhonovite is the alternative spelling of Stakhanovite.

Words near Stakhonovite in the dictionary

  1. Stakhanov
  2. Stakhanovian
  3. Stakhanovism
  4. stakhanovite
  5. Stakhanovites
  6. Stakhonovite
  7. Stakhonovites
  8. staking
  9. staking a claim
  10. staking one's life
  11. staking out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Stakhonovite (page history and authors); Stakhanovite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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