контора

Etymology
around 1720, from, , , from , , , from , , from , + , from  and.

Sense 'KGB' originated from a pun playing on another rare meaning of the abbreviation, namely, in the 1960s.

Noun

 * 1) office, bureau
 * 2)  company
 * 3)  the KGB
 * 4)  KGB successors in the Post-Soviet countries: the FSB, SBU etc.

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