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(USSR) a collective farm owned by the communist state
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kolkhoz
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WordNet
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n. a collective farm owned by the communist state
Wikipedia
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A kolkhoz (, , , Russian plural kolkhozy , anglicized plural kolkhozes ) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union . Kolkhozes existed along with state farms or sovkhoz (plural sovkhozy or sovkhozes ). These were the two components of the socialized ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
U.S.S.R. collective farm, 1921, from Russian kolkhoz , contraction of kollektivnoe khozyaistvo "collective farm."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A farming collective in the former Soviet Union.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
kolkhoz \kol*khoz"\ n. [Russian, concatenated from kollektivnoye khozyaistvo, collective farm.] A collective farm owned by the communist state, in the former USSR.
Usage examples of kolkhoz.
People come to the kolkhoz and they need housing, but we have only one stove-builder.
He'd seen life in the days of private farming and in the days of the kolkhozes too, but that men weren't working in their own villages--this he couldn't swallow.
Otherwise, the inhabitants worked on the state kolkhoz or sovhoz, a kind of village or state cooperative.