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nomenklatura

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12 lettersPronunciation /nɒˌmɛnkləˈtjʊəɹə/Part of speech nounSorted aaeklmnnortuStarts with NEnds with A0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party

Word origin

Borrowed from Russian номенклату́ра (nomenklatúra), from Latin nōmenclātūra (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”). Doublet of nomenclature.

Used in a sentence

  • [Gorbachev] did not champion perestroika and glasnost alone; much of the nomenklatura had decided that the Soviet economic and social model was dysfunctional, corrupt and endemically inefficient and had to change.
  • Communism envisioned […] an Authority Ranking of political control (in theory, the dictatorship of the proletariat; in practice, a nomenklatura of commissars under a charismatic dictator).
  • During the long rule of Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982), the nomenklatura had cemented their power in the system.

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