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kompromat

kompromat noun: compromising material, blackmail material, (real or fabricated) evidence that a person does not want revealed, dirt.

Noun

kompromat (countable and uncountable, plural kompromats)

  1. Compromising material, blackmail material, (real or fabricated) evidence that a person does not want revealed, dirt.
    • Many observers have commented that, with so many Russian newspapers and TV channels now controlled by oligarchs or powerful organisations, kompromat is now a regular feature in the supposedly independent press.
    • If your car has a bunch of data that's useful to stalkers, it's only because the car manufacturers have turned cars into rolling surveillance platforms that spy on their drivers constantly […] If Big Car is worried that used vehicles are full of nonconsensually collected kompromat, maybe they...2020 September 3, Cory Doctorow, “Big Car says Right to Repair will MURDER YOU”, in Pluralistic

Forms of kompromat

pluralkompromats
alternative formcompromat

Origin of kompromat

Borrowed from Russian компрома́т (kompromát), short for компромети́рующий материа́л (komprometírujuščij materiál, “compromising material”). Soviet security service slang from the Stalin era.

Questions about kompromat

What does kompromat mean?
Kompromat means compromising material, blackmail material, (real or fabricated) evidence that a person does not want revealed, dirt.
What part of speech is kompromat?
Kompromat is a noun.
What is the plural of kompromat?
The plural of kompromat is kompromats.

Words near kompromat in the dictionary

  1. Komperda
  2. Komperdas
  3. kompetenz-kompetenz
  4. kompot
  5. kompots
  6. kompromat
  7. kompromats
  8. komquat
  9. komquats
  10. KOMs
  11. Komsomol

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