/steuh kah"neuh vuyt', -kan"euh-/ , n.
1. a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
adj.
2. of or pertaining to a Stakhanovite or to Stakhanovism.
[ trans. of Russ stakhánovets (1935), after Aleksei Grigor'evich Stakhanov (1906-77), Soviet coal miner, whose productivity was the focus of a propaganda campaign; see -ITE 1 ]