kol|khoz

kol|khoz
kol|khoz «kol KOZ; Russian kol khZ», noun, plural -khoz|es, -khoz|y «-kh zee».
a collective farm in the former Soviet Union: »

Almost all farms had been collectivized by 1950, resistance being met with mass deportations. There followed the merging of the kolkhozes into the larger collective units (London Times).

[< Russian kolkhoz, abbreviation of kollektivnoe khozjajstvo collective management]

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