Meaning

2 senses
  1. A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.

    Block

    блокblok, группиро́вкаgruppiróvka

  2. A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance.

    military bloc

    trading bloc

    Block

    блокblok

    a group of countries in special alliance

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Hungary was part of the communist bloc.

  2. Those agenda items were taken up en bloc for discussion.

    deDiese Punkte der Tagesordnung wurden zusammengefasst zur Diskussion gestellt. — Tamy

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  3. Indigeneity only matters selectively to the so-called "anti-imperialist" bloc.

  4. I would like to stress that it is more convenient to control tariffs as a bloc rather than country by country.

    ruЯ хотел бы подчеркнуть, что более удобно управлять тарифами блоками, а не по странам. — maks

  5. India and China are two BRIC bloc countries.

    ruИндия и Китай - две страны блока БРИК. — marafon

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
group of voters or politicians:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
group of voters or politicians:

Origin

Borrowed from French bloc (“group, block”), ultimately of Old Dutch origin, from Frankish

Borrowed from French bloc (“group, block”), ultimately of Old Dutch origin, from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”). Doublet of block.

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Forms

plural: blocs
Singularbloc
Pluralblocs

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a group of countries in special alliance:axis

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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