/ˈɡuːlɑɡ/, /-læɡ/, /ɡuːˈlɑk/
OriginBorrowed from Russian ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG), the acronym of Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítelʹno-trudovýx lageréj, “Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps”), the government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps, which was established in 1918 and formally abolished in 1960: see GULAG.
- historicalAlso GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).
“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 survi”
- broadlyA prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.
“Nevertheless, the Trump administration has continued to insist that Abrego Garcia is a dangerous gang member in order to justify sending him to an overseas Gulag that has been accused of torturing inm”
“The subtext of Knowles’s tweet was also clear: [Nayib] Bukele has partnered with the Trump administration to hold immigrants deported from America, with no due process, in El Salvador’s most notorious”
- also, broadly, figurativelyA place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed.
- alt-ofAlternative letter-case form of gulag.
- alt-ofAlternative letter-case form of gulag.
“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 survi”
- also, figuratively, informal, transitiveTo compel (someone) into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exile.
“Regulative censorships can be amended or revolutionized in ways that raise or lower bodycounts, numbers of books banned or citizens ghettoed or gulaged.”
“The marriage would be the last good thing in [Spencer] Haywood's life for a long time. He was gulaged to basketball Siberia—the now-defunct New Orleans franchise—for his failure to resurrect the Knick”
“Such a situation touches off in the reader a powerful sense of historical déjà vu: witch hunts, Gestapo roundups, the McCarthy era, Argentinian death squads, [Francisco] Franco and the murder of [Fede”
- historicalThe government agency in charge of the Soviet Union's network of forced labour camps, which was established in 1918 and formally abolished in 1960.
“The millions of slave-labourers at the disposal of GULAG played an important economic role, and indeed became accepted as a normal component of the Soviet economy.”
Formsgulags(plural) · Gulag(alternative) · GULAG(alternative) · gulags(present, singular, third-person) · gulaging(participle, present) · gulagging(participle, present) · gulaged(participle, past) · gulaged(past) · gulagged(participle, past) · gulagged(past) · Gulags(plural) · GULAGs(plural)