sovkhoz

American

[sov-kawz] / ˈsɒv kɔz /

noun

plural

sovkhozy, sovkhoz, sovkhozes

(in the former U.S.S.R) a state-owned wage-paying farm.

sovkhoz British

/ sɒfˈkɒz, safˈxɔs /

noun

(in the former Soviet Union) a large mechanized farm owned by the state

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Etymology

Origin of sovkhoz

First recorded in 1920–25; from Russian; blend of sovetskoe khozyaistvo “soviet farm”

Example Sentences

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Each artel would become a kolkhoz, or collective farm, where workers owned their means of production, and eventually a sovkhoz, the state farm, with centralized ownership and quotas.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

Ivan Druri arrived from Murmansk in 1929, charged with organizing Chukotka’s first sovkhoz at Snezhnoe, a settlement a hundred miles northwest of Anadyr.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

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