Etymology

tolkach

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Today it means: In the Soviet Union, an employee whose role was to use informal connections to make it possible for their enterprise to meet or manipulate the government-imposed targets. Full definition →

Russian толкач (tolkač)
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The story

  1. Russianтолкать (tolkatʹ)
  2. Russianтолкач (tolkač)
  3. English todaytolkach

Borrowed from Russian толкач (tolkač).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.