Usually means: Elite governing class in USSR.
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  1. nomenklatura: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. nomenklatura: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. nomenklatura: Collins English Dictionary
  4. nomenklatura: Vocabulary.com
  5. Nomenklatura, nomenklatura: Wordnik
  6. nomenklatura: Wiktionary
  7. nomenklatura: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. nomenklatura: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. nomenklatura: Dictionary.com
  10. Nomenklatura: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. nomenklatura: Rhymezone
  12. nomenklatura: FreeDictionary.org
  13. nomenklatura: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. nomenklatura: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nomenklatura)

noun:  (now historical) A list of bureaucratic posts in government and industry in the former Soviet Union (or other communist countries), filled by those appointed by the Party.
noun:  (collective) The people on such lists; (by extension), any privileged class, a social or political elite.

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