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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.

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Gender Note

See -man.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of nepman1

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

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