artel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a traditional Russian or Soviet cooperative association of workers or craftspeople

   The carpenters formed an artel that shared contracts, tools, and earnings.

Borrowed from Russian artel', the name for a cooperative association whose members shared work, responsibility, and often earnings. The deeper origin of the Russian word is uncertain, so the established borrowing is the secure etymological endpoint.

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