Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·russian ·1940s
Apparatchik
from аппаратчик
- Meaning
- A member of the Communist Party apparatus — a functionary.
- Source word
- аппаратчик
- Route into English
- Soviet political science → English political vocabulary by 1950s; figurative "soulless bureaucrat" since 1980s.
- Arrived
- 1940s
English borrows.
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