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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An agent of the Cheka. historical
2. 2
   A national security official of the KGB, FSB or any of the security services of the Soviet Union or Russian Federation. broadly, metonymically

Etymology

From Russian чеки́ст (čekíst) from Чека́ (Čeká) + -ист (-ist).

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