apparatusnoun
uk/ˌæp.əˈreɪ.təs/us/ˌæp.əˈræt̬.əs/plural apparatusesapparatus noun (EQUIPMENT)
[ U or C ] a set of equipment or tools or a machine that is used for a particular purpose:
a piece of apparatus
The divers checked their breathing apparatus.
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Things needed for a task
- accoutrements
- armory
- armoury
- equipment
- gadget
- gear
- kit
- material
- necessaries
- paraphernalia
- stock-in-trade
- tackle
- thing
- tool
apparatus noun (ORGANIZATION)
[ C usually singular ] an organization or system, especially a political one:
The whole apparatus of communism was already falling apart.
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Systems of government
- a reign of terror idiom
- absolutism
- ancien régime
- anti-federalist
- apartheid
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratize
- despot
- interregnum
- Jim Crow
- junta
- kleptocracy
- majority rule
- plutocracy
- plutocrat
- police state
- regime
- reign
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