- Sta|kha|nov|ism
- Sta|kha|nov|ism «stuh khAH nuh vihz uhm», noun.(formerly in the Soviet Union) a system of rewarding individual enterprise (especially in fatories) and thereby increasing output. Stakhanovism was based on voluntary cooperation among workers divided into units or teams, in which each man did a part of the job at which he was most skilled and was paid for the work on a piecework basis.╂[< Aleksey G. Stakhanov, a coal miner whose record output in two shifts in 1935 was taken as a model for the system + -ism]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.