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- Russian · calque ofприхватизация
- English todaygrabification
Calque of Russian прихватизация (prixvatizacija). By surface analysis, grab + -ification.
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grabification
Today it means: A term used to describe the corrupt, chaotic, and heavily rigged privatization of state-owned assets in Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Full definition →
Russian прихватизация