ALL meanings of nomenklatura
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N n - noun nomenklatura (in the former Soviet Union) a list of influential posts in government and industry to be filled by Communist Party appointees. 1
- noun plural nomenklatura a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party. 1
- singular noun nomenklatura In former communist countries, the nomenklatura were the people the Communist Party approved of and appointed to positions of authority. 0
- noun nomenklatura (formerly, in the USSR and E Europe) a list of individuals drawn up by the Communist Party from which were selected candidates for vacant senior positions in the state, party, and other important organizations 0
- noun nomenklatura the ruling, bureaucratic elite of the former Soviet Union, made up of members of the Communist Party who were chosen by the party to hold positions of leadership and privilege in government and industry 0
- noun nomenklatura any similar ruling elite 0