Meaning & use
Stakhanovite
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An extremely diligent and productive worker, especially one who exceeds output norms, originally in the context of Soviet industry.
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Factory managers held up the young machinist as a model Stakhanovite for the rest of the crew.
Colleagues joked that his habit of working through lunch made him a real Stakhanovite.
A note on using this word
The term comes from Alexey Stakhanov, a Soviet coal miner celebrated in the 1930s for exceeding his production quota by a huge margin, inspiring a state-sponsored labor movement.
Words with a similar meaning
overachieverworkhorse
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slacker
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