russiagate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.81 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A scandal in the late 1990s in which billions of dollars were laundered out of Russia by the bureaucracy of president Boris Yeltsin with the assistance of Western banks such as the Bank of New York.
name
The controversy and Russia investigation that ensued after the US presidential election in 2016 regarding the discovery of myriad secretive links between Trump associates and Russian officials.
American usage; Informal
Example Sentences
- "Nauru, a small Pacific atoll, was involved in the largest money laundering case in history, the so-called Russiagate scandal of the late 1990s, which involved the Bank of New York."
- "Her [Fiona Hill's] time as special assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian Affairs, a role that put her at the center of domestic and geopolitical intrigue, follows the arc of the Russiagate scandal that dogged Trump’s presidency almost from its inception."