kolkhoz
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of kolkhoz
1920–25; < Russian kolkhóz, for kol ( lektívnoe ) collective + khoz ( yáĭstvo ) household, farm, economy
Example Sentences
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Many had fallen into a slowly degrading limbo: The kolkhoz, or collective farm, that once stood in the heart of Senkivka was abandoned, graffiti on its walls warning that the building was liable to collapse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
Iatgyrgin was sixteen years old in 1940, when his family entered the Polar Star kolkhoz, in Beryozovo.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 15, 2019
There were other new incentives for joining a kolkhoz: its store often provided the only source for tea, sugar, and tobacco in the area.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 15, 2019
A large, ruddy-faced man with a deceptively jovial manner, Stengach wields power on the kolkhoz, answering only to the local party authorities.
From Time Magazine Archive
I saw Kretzsky exit the rear door of the kolkhoz office.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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