Nepman

English

Alternative forms
  • NEP man
  • nepman

Etymology

From NEP +‎ man, after Russian Нэпман (Nɛpman).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnɛpmən/

Noun

Nepman (plural Nepmen)

  1. (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, Andrew Bromfield, translating Mikhail Bulgakov, A Dog's Heart, Penguin 2007, p. 67:
      Filipp Filippovich rolled up his eyes. ‘And what makes you a working man?’
      ‘Well, I'm obviously not a Nepman am I?’

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