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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

/ ˌæəˈɑː /

noun

  1. the Communist Party organization in the former Soviet Union and other states
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of apparat1

1940–45; < Russian 貹á originally, scientific apparatus < German < Latin 貹ٳܲ. See apparatus
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of apparat1

Russian, literally: apparatus
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“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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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