gulag
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Russian ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG): Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítelʹno-trudovýx lageréj, “Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps, Main Directorate for Places of Detention, Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps, etc.”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gulag (plural gulags)
- A prison camp.
- The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period.
- One important difference between the GULAG system and the Nazi concentration camps was that a person sentenced to five years of hard labor in a Soviet labor camp could expect, assuming he or she survived, to be released at the end of the sentence. [Gulag: Soviet Prison Camps and Their Legacy; By David Hosford, Pamela Kachurin and Thomas Lamont. National Resource Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Harvard University]
Verb[edit]
gulag (third-person singular simple present gulags, present participle gulaging, simple past and past participle gulaged)
- (informal, transitive) To force into this prison or a similar system.
Translations[edit]
Soviet labour camp
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References[edit]
- ^ “gulag” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ^ “gulag” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2021.
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
gulag m (plural gulags)
- gulag (Soviet labour camp)
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Russian ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gulag m (plural gulags)
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