an organization or existing power structure, especially a political one
"administrative machinery of the Communist Party in Russia," 1950, from Rus., from Ger. apparat "apparatus, instrument," from L. apparatus (see apparatus).
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/apparat)
"Fox News Business Network commentator Lou Dobbs commented in 2011 that 'as it's being run now, [the EPA] could be part of the apparat of the Soviet Union.'"
- Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
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