apparatn.
/apəˈrɑːt/ The party machine of the Communist party in Russia, etc. Also attributive.
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1950 A. Koestler in R. Crossman God that Failed i. i. 46 I found Communist apparat-work much less efficient than its scared opponents presume.
1952 A. Koestler Arrow in Blue xxviii. 262 This is true not only of members of the ‘Apparat’ but of militant Communists in general.
1955 H. Hodgkinson Doubletalk 14 Apparat, the administrative apparatus, usually of State or Party; the ‘Party machine’.
1960 Encounter Mar. 69/1 The dead-weight of a clumsy bureaucratic Apparat having been disposed of, a fresh team of leaders..succeeded in tackling the reconstruction of the intellectual formulation of Social Democratic policy [in E. Germany].
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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