Nepman

noun — 2 senses

noun

UK /ˈnɛpmən/

Etymology From NEP + -man, after Russian нэ́пман (nɛ́pman).

Historical Someone engaged in private enterprise under Lenin's New Economic Policy in the Soviet Union.

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

Broadly Any successful entrepreneur.

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