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say it: noh-meng-kluh-CHUUR-uh
nomenklatura is a noun meaning "the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party". It is pronounced /noʊˌmɛŋkləˈtʃʊɹə/ — noh-meng-kluh-CHUUR-uh. It carries one recorded sense.
the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nomenklatura come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.