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ALL meanings of gulag

gu·lag
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  • noun gulag Soviet labour camp 1
  • noun gulag the system of forced-labor camps in the Soviet Union. 1
  • noun gulag a Soviet forced-labor camp. 1
  • noun gulag any prison or detention camp, especially for political prisoners. 1
  • noun gulag A prison camp. 1
  • countable noun gulag A gulag is a prison camp where conditions are extremely bad and the prisoners are forced to work very hard. The name gulag comes from the prison camps in the former Soviet Union. 0
  • noun gulag (formerly) the central administrative department of the Soviet security service, established in 1930, responsible for maintaining prisons and forced labour camps 0
  • noun gulag any system used to silence dissents 0
  • noun gulag the system of prisons and labor camps, esp. for political prisoners, in the Soviet Union 0
  • noun gulag such a prison or forced-labor camp, as in the Soviet Union 0
  • noun gulag any place or situation regarded as like such a prison 0
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