or K.G.B.
Origin of KGB
Russian from Komitet Gosudarstvennoj Bezopasnosti, Committee of State Security the security police and intelligence agency (1954-91) of the Soviet UnionKGB
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KGB
noun
The intelligence and internal security agency of the former Soviet Union.
Origin of KGB
Russian from K(omitet) G(osudarstvennoĭ) B(ezopasnosti) komitet committee gosudarstvennoĭ genitive of gosudarstvennyĭ of the state bezopasnosti genitive of bezopasnost' securityTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Proper noun
- the former Soviet State Security Committee.
Origin
From Russian КГБ (KGB), through phonetic spelling of Комитет государственной безопасности (Komitét gosudárstvennoj bezopásnosti, “State Security Committee”) and acronymization.
Initialism
(plural KGBs)
- (electronics) Known good board.
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