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(USSR) a collective farm owned by the communist state
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kolkhoz
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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.
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."
WordNet
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n. a collective farm owned by the communist state
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A farming collective in the former Soviet Union.
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.