单词 | nepman |
释义 | Nepmann. Originally (now historical): a person engaged in private enterprise under the New Economic Policy (see NEP n.3) in the Soviet Union. Later, also (in extended use): a successful entrepreneur. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > an economic policy > specific policies and actions > supporters of tariffite1830 inflationist1876 tariffist1901 tariff-reformer1903 tariff-monger1904 deflationist1921 Nepman1922 redistributionist1939 growth-man1961 substantivist1967 fiscal engineer1977 supply-sider1980 1922 O. M. Sayler Russ. Theatre xvii. 291 In the theatre life of Moscow today, a strange new figure is discernible–the unlettered, unrefined peace-profiteer, or Nep-man, whose curious nickname is formed from the initials of the Soviet's sanction for private trading, or ‘New Economic Policy’. 1924 Glasgow Herald 2 Jan. 7 The wholesale arrest of thousands of persons, including many ‘Nepmen’ supporters of the new economic policy. 1951 A. Koestler Age of Longing vi. 98 There were rich and poor again; though the rich were now called NEP-men. 1961 C. Cockburn View from West ix. 127 The British upper middle classes..richer and happier than ever—the great NEP-men of the 1950s. 1986 Oxf. Art Jrnl. Jan. 62/2 The ceramics were..sold..in Leningrad at prices affordable only to..the new entrepreneurial class of ‘nepmen’. 1993 J. N. Westwood Endurance & Endeavour (ed. 4) xii. 286 Until 1926 the trade of the nepmany rose absolutely. 2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 May 64/2 The liquidation, by ‘class struggle’, of all ‘kulaks’, ‘Petty bourgeois’ NEP men, ‘wreckers’, and other ‘enemies of the people’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1922 |
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