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
Where herders were convinced to merge their reindeer, kolkhoz herds were so small and supplies so short that the collectives never got off the ground.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 15, 2019
Despite its inefficiency, the Ukraina kolkhoz is one of the Soviet Union's most profitable collective farms.
From Time Magazine Archive
“They say we must report to the kolkhoz office immediately.”
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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