Nepman
English
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editFrom NEP + man, after Russian нэ́пман (nɛ́pman).
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editNepman (plural Nepmen)
- (now historical) Someone engaged in private enterprise under Lenin's New Economic Policy in the Soviet Union; by extension, any successful entrepreneur. [from 20th c.]
- 2007, Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Andrew Bromfield, A Dog's Heart, Penguin, page 67:
- Filipp Filippovich rolled up his eyes. ‘And what makes you a working man?’
‘Well, I'm obviously not a Nepman am I?’