twenty-five-thousander
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From twenty-five thousand + -er, a calque of Russian двадцатипятитысячники (dvadcatipjatitysjačniki).
Noun
[edit]twenty-five-thousander (plural twenty-five-thousanders)
- (historical) One of the approximately 25,000 industrial workers who voluntarily left their homes to do rural work in the kolkhozes in the USSR in the early 1930s.