udarnikn.
/uːˈdɑːnɪk/ A shock-worker (shock n.3 8c).
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] > maker or manufacturer > who exceeds production quota
udarnik1931
labour hero1945
labour heroine1945
1931 S. N. Harper Making Bolsheviks vii. 162 Udarnik is the member of a ‘shock brigade’.
1939 G. B. Shaw Geneva i. 25 In her youth she was a udarnik, what you call a shock worker.
1966 Economist 29 Oct. 464/1 Various forms of ‘socialist competition’ were gradually introduced, first with the aid of shock workers or udarniki, and then by the encouragement of Stakhanovites.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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- shepherd's hourglass
- shepherd's hut
- shepherd's joy
- shepherd's knot
- shepherd's lamp
- shepherd's life
- shepherd's mastie
- shepherd's myrtle
- shepherd's needle
- shepherd's pedler
- shepherd's pie
- shepherd's pipe
- shepherd's plaid
- shepherd's pouch
- shepherd's rod
- shepherd's root
- shepherd's rose
- shepherd's scrip
- shepherd's spider
- shepherd's staff
- shepherd's sun-dial
- shepherd's sundial
- shepherd's tartan
- shepherd's thyme