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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The Lenin Sovkhoz provides fruit and vegetables to Moscow’s upscale supermarkets, which cater round-the-clock to people willing to pay a premium for fresh produce. Grudinin, who told Solovyov that his income this year was 20 million rubles, or about $351,000, says his workers make about $1,370 per month, more than double the Russian average, and are guaranteed medical care, children’s education and housing.

From Washington Post

Grudinin can show them something neither Navalny nor Putin can: the Lenin Sovkhoz, a former Soviet collective farm he has built into a “socialist oasis in the capitalist jungle of suburban Moscow,” as he put it recently.

From Washington Post

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