Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union.
- noun A labor camp in this network.
- noun A network of prisons used especially for political dissidents.
- noun A prison in such a network.
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- noun A
prison camp. - noun A generic name for the system of all
Soviet prison camps in use during theStalinist period.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So if you are not a WASP, look out cause the GOP gulag is waiting to get you!
Steele talks immigration policy in meeting with Hispanic activists 2010
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They are Britain's survivors of Guantánamo, the detention centre that has been called the "gulag of our times".
Britain's Guantánamo survivors are suffering a toxic legacy 2012
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If AZ is going to put people in gulag conditions, it seems to me they ought to make damn sure they are only criminalizing the most serious offenses.
State of Arizona Commits Negligent Homicide Against Sex Worker « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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How anyone who calls themselves a Christian can support Guantánamo, or support the architects of this obscene gulag is beyond me.
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave . . . NOT! | Living the Liminal 2008
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Most of the deaths, perhaps around 39,000,000 are due to lethal forced labor in gulag and transit thereto.
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Do you have any idea what the word gulag actually means?
The Guantanamo Bay military prison meets the requirements of the Geneva Conventions. Ann Althouse 2009
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It was Texas under the incompetent rule of then Governor George W. Bush that became known as the gulag state of Texas for having turned a social problem into just another GOP scam, a get rich quick scheme, another way in which GOP blood-suckers feed at the public trough.
Gulag Nation: Over One in One Hundred Americans Are in Prison 2008
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The reply probably came in the form of arrests and long term gulag sentences.
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The word gulag has certain connotations that don't apply to Supermax.
The Wisconsin gulag. Ann Althouse 2006
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About a year ago, you may recall, it was all over British and U.S. news that North Korea separates disabled people according to impairment and sends them to "gulag"-like work camps.
Disability in China Kay Olson 2007
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