Twenty-five-thousander

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Noun
  1. 1
    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. historical

Etymology

From twenty-five thousand + -er, a calque of Russian двадцатипятитысячники (dvadcatipjatitysjačniki).

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