Apparat

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

Origin

From Russian аппарат (apparát, "apparatus, apparat"); cognate to apparatus.

Full definition of apparat

Noun

1. The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
• 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 184:The second thing to absorb was that, behind all the spontaneity and eroticism and generalized “festival of the oppressed” merrymaking, a grim-faced Communist apparat was making preparations for an end to the revels and a serious seizure of the state.

Related terms

• apparatchik
• apparatus