Meaning

2 senses

  1. (US, slang)A newspaper.

  2. (uncountable)The Soviet system of connections and social relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).

    To open a new business in Russia you need blat.

    блатblat

    блатblat

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Trombones: it may be fun to go wild, but try not to blat the notes.

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  2. With another blat the beast switched around, lowered his head, and charged directly at the ugly man.

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Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia):
Русский
By meaning 1
connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia):

Origin

Borrowed from German Blatt (“newspaper”). Doublet of blade. Borrowed from Russian блат (b

Borrowed from German Blatt (“newspaper”). Doublet of blade.

Borrowed from Russian блат (blat), from Polish blat (“cover, umbrella”) or Yiddish בלאַט (blat, “leaf, list”). Doublet of blade.

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Forms

plural: blats
Singularblat
Pluralblats

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
guanxi

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
blastB2blastedblatantblatantly

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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