Gulag

Quick meaning: Gulag is a noun meaning A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.

Meaning

A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.

More Meanings

1. A place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed.
2. (transitive, informal, also figuratively) To compel (someone) into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exile.
3. (historical) Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).

Example Sentences

Regulative censorships can be amended or revolutionized in ways that raise or lower bodycounts, numbers of books banned or citizens ghettoed or gulaged.

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 inmates.

[Abraham Michael] Rosenthal's reign was described by many as a period of paranoia and terror at the [New York] Times—one reporter said, "He was like the Czar; people would get gulaged at the drop of a hat."

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 gulag.

Word Forms

• gulags
• gulaging
• gulagging
• gulaged
• gulagged

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