Usually means: Soviet forced labor camp system.
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  1. gulag: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Gulag, gulag: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gulag: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Gulag: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Gulag, gulag: Wordnik
  7. the gulag: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gulag: Wiktionary
  9. gulag: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gulag: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. gulag: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. GULAG, GULag, Gulag (disambiguation), Gulag (film), Gulag: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. gulag: Rhymezone
  16. GULAG: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. gulag: Free Dictionary
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noun:  (historical) Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930sā€“1950s).
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.
noun:  (also figuratively) A place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed.
verb:  (transitive, informal, also figuratively) To compel (someone) into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exile.
noun:  (historical) 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.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of gulag [(historical) Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930sā€“1950s).]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of gulag [(historical) Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930sā€“1950s).]

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