KGB
pronunciation
How to pronounce KGB in British English:
UK [ˌkeɪ dʒi: ˈbi:]
How to pronounce KGB in American English:
US [ˌkeɡiˈbi]
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- Noun:
- formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia
Word Origin
- KGB
- national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991, attested from 1955 in English, initialism (acronym) of Russian Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti "Committee for State Security."
Example
- 1. This suspicion tainted the kgb careers of all four .
- 2. In soviet days he was a kgb lieutenant-colonel .
- 3. Such things reflect mr putin 's background as a kgb officer .
- 4. The interrogating kgb officer pushes me against a filing cabinet .
- 5. The professor says he began his career in the kgb in 1976 .