apparat

Borrowed from Russian аппара́т (apparát, “apparatus, apparat”). Doublet of apparatus.

• Rhymes: -ɑːt

apparat (plural apparats)

1. The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 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.

• apparatchik
• apparatus

German Apparat (“device, apparatus”), from Latin apparātus.

• IPA^(key): /aparat/, [ɑb̥ɑˈʁɑːˀd̥], /apərat/, [ɑb̥əˈʁɑːˀd̥]

apparat n (singular definite apparatet, plural indefinite apparater)

1. instrument, apparatus, appliance, machine
2. device
3. radio or TV set
4. camera
5. telephone, handset, extension
6. machinery

• “apparat” in Den Danske Ordbog
• apparat on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Borrowed from Latin apparatus.

• IPA^(key): /a.pa.ʁa/

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apparat m (plural apparats)

1. pomp, ceremony

• apparat critique

• “apparat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

apparat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of apparō

Borrowed from French apparat, from Latin apparatus.

apparat n (definite singular apparatet, indefinite plural apparat or apparater, definite plural apparata or apparatene)

1. mechanical or electrical device, appliance or instrument
2. apparatus

• fjernsynsapparat
• forstørrelsesapparat
• fotoapparat
• kassaapparat, kasseapparat

• “apparat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from French apparat, from Latin apparatus.

apparat n (definite singular apparatet, indefinite plural apparat, definite plural apparata)

1. mechanical or electrical device, appliance or instrument
2. apparatus

• fjernsynsapparat
• fotoapparat
• kassaapparat, kasseapparat

• “apparat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French apparat, from Latin apparatus.

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apparat c

1. an apparatus, a device; a complex machine or instrument, often run by electricity
2. an apparatus; a bureaucratic organization, especially within the area of politics
3. short for TV-apparat or radioapparat: TV set or radio receiver

• (bureaucratic organization): partiapparat

• apparatur (“apparatus (set of equipment)”)