Definitions for bloc

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bloc bloc

Spelling: [blok]

IPA: /blɒk/

Bloc is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in bloc (bclo).

Definitions for bloc

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:
3. a group of nations that share common interests and usually act in concert in international affairs:

Origin of bloc

From French, dating back to 1900-05; See origin at block

Examples for bloc

They relate to potential exports from other countries to the Soviet bloc.

Two years later, he had released all Soviet dissidents from prison and was beginning to loosen the reins on Soviet bloc countries.

That is what the group or bloc system is, a resolution into component parts.

This bloc consisted of various parties of the Russian bourgeoisie.

But the whole are really a bloc, the continental sense of which is rather different from our "block."

But did The Hague just witness the emergence of a new bloc to bloc rivalry, triggered by events in the Ukraine?

Only $98 of the total went to Communist China, all the rest to the European bloc.

If this bloc of millions of ­Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.

bloc voting for allies, and totally blanking your political foes, became the norm.

In 1945, the place housed captured Nazis but by 1948 most of its prisoners were Soviet bloc spies.