Securitate
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See also: securitate
English
Etymology
From Romanian Securitate (from securitate (“security”)), short for Direcţia Generală a Securităţii Poporului (“General Directorate for the Security of the People”), later Departamentul Securităţii Statului (“Department for State Security”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɪkjʊəɹɪˈtɑːteɪ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sɪkjʊɹɪˈtɑteɪ/
Proper noun
Securitate
- (now historical) The official state security and secret police force of Romania under Communist rule.
- 1999 December 19, Chris Stephen, The Observer:
- My young interpreter scowls, inserting into her translation her own memories of six-hour queues to buy milk, and of the feared Securitate secret police.
- 2012, John Sweeney, ‘At War with Ceausescu’, Literary Review, number 399:
- Even our Securitate-approved minders went into a mental coma when we questioned the genius of the Genius of the Carpathians, Nicolae Ceauşescu.
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