Apparat
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
"The second thing to absorb was that, behind all the spontaneity and eroticism and generalized “festival of the oppressed” merrymaking, a grim-faced Communist apparat was making preparations for an end to the revels and a serious seizure of the state."
Example
More examples"The second thing to absorb was that, behind all the spontaneity and eroticism and generalized “festival of the oppressed” merrymaking, a grim-faced Communist apparat was making preparations for an end to the revels and a serious seizure of the state."
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian аппара́т (apparát, “apparatus, apparat”). Doublet of apparatus.
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