Unscramble

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8 letters · 20 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature

originBorrowed from Russian самизда́т (samizdát, “self-publishing”), from сам (sam, “self”) + изда́т (izdát), an abbreviation of изда́тельство (izdátelʹstvo, “publishing house, publishing”) (compare Russian Госизда́т (Gosizdát, “State Publisher”)).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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