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bloc
[ blok ]
noun
- a group of persons, businesses, etc., united for a particular purpose.
- a group of legislators, usually of both major political parties, who vote together for some particular interest:
the farm bloc.
- a group of nations that share common interests and usually act in concert in international affairs:
the Soviet bloc.
bloc
/ blɒk /
noun
- a group of people or countries combined by a common interest or aim
the Soviet bloc
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bloc1
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Example Sentences
However, in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections they were the largest bloc of voters.
The group seems to blend “black bloc” anarchist street violence with social-media campaigns.
Two years later, he had released all Soviet dissidents from prison and was beginning to loosen the reins on Soviet bloc countries.
Now Lyovochkin complains that several of the Opposition Bloc members have suffered attacks while on the election trail.
But politics are volatile in Ukraine and Opposition Bloc is pushing hard.
Pederson headed a bloc against 'Carmack's Folly,' but he backed the wrong horse, and when the bubble burst he was out in the cold.
He didn't feel it—he had thrown up a nerve bloc—but it rattled his teeth together.
Sometimes he becomes wholly insensitive in some part of his body via a nerve bloc.
Can true converts be made to order by constraint, motives of self-interest, or by baptizing them en bloc?
The French Socialists were returned with important majorities, and the Bloc found itself stronger than ever before.
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