noun
1.
a group of persons, businesses, etc., united for a particular purpose.
2.
a group of legislators, usually of both major political parties, who vote together for some particular interest: the farm bloc.
3.
a group of nations that share common interests and usually act in concert in international affairs: the Soviet bloc.
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| a group of people or countries combined by a common interest or aim: the Soviet bloc | |
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Word Origin & History
bloc
1903, in reference to alliances in Continental politics, from Fr. bloc "group, block," from O.Fr. bloc "piece of wood" (see block).
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Example sentences
These voters are expected to make up a significant voting bloc for the candidate.
Yet the board has some power, as last week's vote showed, and a determinedly ideological bloc can organise accordingly.
It is the first under the bloc's overhauled structure.
Blacks had been the winning bloc in his first election, and they remained indispensable to his political base.
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