gulag
To compel into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exileTo compel (someone) into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exile.
» Fyodor spent ten years in a gulag.
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1 senses(also, figuratively, informal)To compel (someone) into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exile.
Examples
4 sentencesFyodor spent ten years in a gulag.
Tom managed to escape from a gulag in Siberia.
The Russian prison system, known as the Gulag, was a very brutal place.
Stalin studied Esperanto at one point, but in his later years, he had Esperanto speakers executed, exiled, or sent to gulags.
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
Borrowed from Russian ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG), the acronym of Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-тBorrowed from Russian ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG), the acronym of Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítelʹno-trudovýx lageréj, “Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps”), the government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps, which was established in 1918 and formally abolished in 1960: see GULAG.
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Forms
gulags, gulaging, gulaged, gulagedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle