nepman

[ nep-muhn ]

noun,plural nep·men.
  1. (in the Soviet Union) a person who engaged briefly in private enterprise during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s.

Origin of nepman

1
<Russian nė́pman, equivalent to nėp, acronym from Nóvaya ėkonomícheskaya polítikaNew Economic Policy + -man<German -mann or English -man

usage note For nepman

See -man.

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