apparat
apparat · apparats
The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic…The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
Meaning
2 sensesThe Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
An apparatus; an instrument; a device.
Origin
Borrowed from Russian аппара́т (apparát, “apparatus, apparat”). Doublet of apparatus. FroBorrowed from Russian аппара́т (apparát, “apparatus, apparat”). Doublet of apparatus.
From German Apparat and Russian аппара́т (apparát). Doublet of apparatus.
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