gulag
Meanings
Plural: gulags
Noun
- a Russian prison camp for political prisoners
- Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).
- A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.
- A place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed.
Verb
- To compel (someone) into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exile.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed 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.
Scrabble Score: 7
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Words With Friends Score: 11
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