apparat
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- noun
- /ˈæpəˌrɑt/
- Literature
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aparato
- Useful tidbits from the East German intelligence apparat and all the Eastern Bloc clones of their common master, the KGB.
- Party apparat
Examples
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Mike Murphy, Republican strategist, said to Ron Brownstein of National Journal, "Too many of the party apparat and too many of the powerful subgroups are much more connected to nostalgia than they are to modern demographics."
Blog text (3) -
Reform was difficult to implement because the entrenched apparat was resistant to change.
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And this apparat has tried, through the years of perestroika, to keep its economic base of state ownership intact.
Academic text (1991) -
The core of the political system, its pivot, is the Communist Party with its apparat, with its monopoly on power.
Academic text (1991) -
He's always had an independent source of income due to his job in the Langley apparat... that's meant that he's had the money to pursue an "independent" path.
Blog text (27) -
In the near future, we will likely have paid block-level informants reporting to the security apparat and the construction of large-scale additions to the American gulag, just as were used in the former Soviet Union and their puppets.
Blog text (30) -
The government apparat worked behind the scenes to influence policy decisions and maintain control.
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In authoritarian regimes, the political apparat often ensures that dissent is swiftly punished.
How Powerful
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The political sense of apparat grew from the same root apparatus and later use in Russian, where people used it like a 'machine' to describe the organised way a party or state works. So an apparat is an administrative or political 'machine' that runs parts of government.