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nomenclatura

nomenclatura is the alternative form of nomenklatura.

Meaning of nomenklatura

Noun

nomenklatura (plural nomenklaturas)

  1. A list of bureaucratic posts in government and industry in the former Soviet Union and other communist countries, filled by those appointed by the Party.
  2. (collective) The people on such lists; (by extension), any privileged class, a social or political elite.
    • [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.2007 October 13, Will Hutton, “Will China's next leader be its Gorbachev?”, in The Observer, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2025

Forms of nomenclatura

pluralnomenclaturas

Questions about nomenclatura

What is nomenclatura the alternative form of?
Nomenclatura is the alternative form of nomenklatura.

Words near nomenclatura in the dictionary

  1. nomenclatorially
  2. nomenclators
  3. nomenclatory
  4. nomenclatress
  5. nomenclatresses
  6. nomenclatura
  7. nomenclatural
  8. nomenclatural synonym
  9. nomenclatural synonyms
  10. nomenclaturalist
  11. nomenclaturalists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nomenclatura (page history and authors); nomenklatura (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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