bloc en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
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.
Meanings
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A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
How that impacts Asia’s most stable democracy will become clearer only in the weeks ahead. Sunday’s vote was a mid-term election for the less powerful, upper house of the legislature. And the Sanseito party, while surging, is still only the fourth-largest bloc in that chamber.
2025 July 24, Ned Temko, “In Japan, too, voters want their country to be ‘great again’”, in The Christian Science Monitor, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2025:But a huge bloc of non-Hispanic white residents without bachelor’s degrees — 72 percent of the population age 25 or older — has turned the 7th District into Republican turf.
2020 May 11, Geoffrey Skelley, Nathaniel Rakich, “Two Special Elections On Tuesday Could Hint At Another Blue Wave In 2020”, in FiveThirtyEight, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2020:
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A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance.
trading bloc
military bloc
Like the iPod and MySpace, the BRICS bloc is a product of the benign optimism of the 2000s.
2023 August 17, “The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions”, in The Economist, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2023:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| blocs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
nonbloc · superbloc · Soviet Bloc · bloc party · bloc chip · antibloc · Western Bloc · blocwide · interbloc · Eastern Bloc · Atlantic bloc · black bloc · trade bloc · padded bloc · intrabloc
Relateds
Translations (46)
es bloque (group of countries) · sv block (group of voters or politicians) · vi khối (group of voters or politicians) · hy բլոկ (group of voters or politicians) · pt bloco (group of voters or politicians) · he גוש (group of countries) · ko 연합 (group of countries) · fa بلوک (group of countries) · no blokk (group of voters or politicians) · bg блок (group of countries) · sh бло̏к (group of countries) · de Block (group of countries) · hy բլոկ (group of countries) · no blokk (group of countries) · it blocco (group of voters or politicians) · el μπλοκ (group of countries) · sv block (group of countries) · sh blȍk (group of countries) · cmn 集團 /集团 (group of voters or politicians) · fi blokki (group of voters or politicians) · fi blokki (group of countries) · pl blok (group of voters or politicians) · cmn 聯合 /联合 (group of countries) · ky блок m бирикме (group of voters or politicians) · sh blȍk (group of voters or politicians) · pl blok (group of countries) · ru блок (group of voters or politicians) · sh бло̏к (group of voters or politicians) · bg групировка (group of voters or politicians) · hi गुट (group of countries) · de Block (group of voters or politicians) · it blocco (group of countries) · es bloque (group of voters or politicians) · hy խմբավորում (group of voters or politicians) · vi khối (group of countries) · ar كُتْلَة (group of countries) · pt bloco (group of countries) · fi liittouma (group of countries) · fi ryhmittymä (group of voters or politicians) · hy դաշինք (group of voters or politicians) · ja 連合 (group of countries) · fr bloc (group of countries) · fi liittouma (group of voters or politicians) · ru блок (group of countries) · ru группиро́вка (group of voters or politicians) · ar كُتْلَة (group of voters or politicians)