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A worker especially in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics whose production is consistently above average and who is therefore awarded recognition and special privileges.

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Usage examples (4)
  • On the one hand, officials have been told not to produce documents that are longer than 15 pages except for directives, regulations and constitutions, presumably and, in a...
  • My stakhanovite efforts in the criminal justice system were rewarded with even more files, which I duly put to bed, Bristol fashion.
  • I do not need to explain either the military pointlessness of this spectacularly ill-chosen stakhanovite target, nor do I have to have to labour the point about this...
  • A real stakhanovite (Ch. jijifenzi), or hurtsunba as they are known in Tibet.
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