Synonym: axis. Similar words: block, blocked, blockade, blockage, blockaded, blockbuster, lock, flock. Meaning: [blɒk] 
n. a group of countries in special alliance.
n. a group of countries in special alliance. 
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(1) A solid bloc of union members support the decision.
(2) The selectors should resign en bloc.
(3) They left the meeting en bloc.
(4) There are reports of teachers resigning en bloc.
(5) There have been growing tensions within the trading bloc.
(6) The five countries formed a regional trade bloc.
(7) The European Union is a powerful trading/trade bloc.
(8) The politician tried to disaffect every major voting bloc.
(9) We must consider all the difficulties en bloc.
(10) You cannot dismiss these stories en bloc.
(11) The Liberal Bloc voted for the tax increase.
(12) The ruling committee resigned en bloc to make way for a new election.
(13) Now the governors en bloc are demanding far more consultation and rights over contractual approval.
(14) At that time[http://Sentencedict.com], Eastern bloc countries danced to the Soviet tune.
(15) Until about 1991, the Eastern bloc was the Soviet Union and the communist countries of Eastern Europe.
(16) No Soviet bloc representatives sat on the Commission.
(17) Status: Soviet bloc economic co-operation pact.
(18) The Soviet bloc collapses; same story.
(19) Communists and their allies control the largest bloc of seats in the 450-member Duma.
(20) Formation of regional party bloc Five regional autonomy parties moved towards forming a political bloc under the leadership of the Lombardy League.
(21) The government sold a controlling 35 percent bloc of shares to a group led by Telefonica de Espana in March 1994.
(22) The new Prime Minister is cultivating relationships with old Eastern Bloc countries.
(23) She knew that she could put economic pressure on her neighbours to build up a bloc of states aligned to herself.
(24) Several women took over powerful committee chairmanships and a growing bloc of 14 Latinos helped elect Bustamante speaker.
(25) I shall invite them to join us in putting the pound, franc and lira into a new currency bloc.
(26) Yet that is precisely the aim of the substantial anti-environment bloc Republicans have assembled in Congress.
(27) By 1973 the profit rate in business and manufacturing had fallen from its previous peak in each major bloc by about one-third.
(28) Geography, with special attention to the disposition of the Communist bloc and the free World.
(29) Philby was discounted and everything pointed to Mills - a senior man in the Soviet bloc department.
(30) Pacepa was not the first defector from the world of Soviet bloc secret services to make such a claim.