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apparat

[ ap-uh-rat, ah-puh-raht ]

noun

  1. an organization or existing power structure, especially a political one:

    a position of leadership within the party apparat; The chess apparat is not eager to change tournament rules.



apparat

/ ˌæpəˈrɑːt /

noun

  1. the Communist Party organization in the former Soviet Union and other states
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of apparat1

1940–45; < Russian apparát originally, scientific apparatus < German < Latin apparātus. See apparatus
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Word History and Origins

Origin of apparat1

Russian, literally: apparatus
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Example Sentences

“They are accused of trying to infiltrate the State apparat on behalf of the ‘Gulen Movement,’ which is accused of being behind the failed coup,” Albayak said.

This year, they’re launching an electronic music festival, ADD, which will bring artists like Apparat and Speedy J to Peiraios 260, a reclaimed 1970s-era furniture factory on the city’s outskirts.

Even as he was making those albums, he was performing righteous gigs with the Apparat Organ Quartet – think the Fall play Kraftwerk – and there was plenty before that.

The son’s response to the invitation, “I love it,” will become the iconic summation of the Trump apparat’s attitude toward the assistance the president received from Vladimir Putin’s regime.

Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general on whom the Trump apparat initially tried to pin responsibility for Comey’s firing, may be next — if he is the person of integrity his friends describe.

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