Stakhanovian

Meaning

Adjective

  • Extremely productive or hard-working, especially in the context of the former USSR, where such workers could earn special rewards.

Origin

  • Stakhanov + -ian, whose prodigious output was publicised by Stalin as part of a 1935 campaign.

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