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KGB.

The Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union (the Soviet security service).

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Meaning & usage

name/keɪ.d͡ʒi.biː/
  1. The Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union (the Soviet security service).

    historical
  2. The security service of Belarus.

Where this word comes from

From Russian КГБ (KGB), acronym of Комите́т госуда́рственной безопа́сности (Komitét gosudárstvennoj bezopásnosti, “State Security Committee”).

noun/keɪ.d͡ʒi.biː/
  1. Initialism of known good board.

    abbreviation · alt-of · initialism
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.