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Another word for bloc

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Noun
      1. A circular band used for carrying, holding, or containing something:
      2. A surname for a maker of rings as jewelry or as in harness.
      3. Annual ring
      1. A secret scheme or plot.
      2. The intrigues of such a group; plot
      3. A small group of persons joined in a secret, often political, intrigue; junta
      1. Close similarity in nature or type; affinity:
      2. A formal agreement establishing such an association, especially an international treaty of friendship.
      3. A close association of nations or other groups, formed to advance common interests or causes:
      1. A long-term cooperative alliance among a small number of male lions or cheetahs, especially to gain access to females or territory.
      2. An alliance of factions, nations, etc., for some specific purpose, as of political parties in times of national emergency
      3. An alliance, especially a temporary one, of people, factions, parties, or nations.
    See also:

    faction

    alliance

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Another word for bloc

Noun

  1. An association, especially of nations for a common cause

      1. An organization or confederation uniting various individuals, political units, etc.
      2. An organization at a college or university that provides facilities for recreation; a student union.
      3. A workhouse maintained by such a union.
      1. (Baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.
      2. A body of persons organized for some specific purpose, as a club, union, or society
      3. The administrative personnel of such a structure:
      1. A compact or covenant made by nations, groups, or individuals for promoting common interests, assuring mutual protection, etc.
      2. A class or level of competition:
      3. An association or alliance of individuals, groups, or nations formed by such a covenant
      1. The act of uniting or of forming a union of states, groups, etc. by agreement of each member to subordinate its power to that of the central authority in common affairs
      2. A league or association formed by federating, especially a government or political body established through federal union.
      1. The union of the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada, brought about July 1, 1867, under the name Dominion of Canada.
      2. In Newfoundland, the political union of Newfoundland with Canada.
      3. Federal union of all the Canadian provinces and territories.
      1. People, groups, nations, or states united for some common purpose
      2. A group of people who have united for unlawful practices; a conspiracy.
      3. A league or alliance formed by such a union; federation or confederation
      1. A long-term cooperative alliance among a small number of male lions or cheetahs, especially to gain access to females or territory.
      2. An alliance of factions, nations, etc., for some specific purpose, as of political parties in times of national emergency
      3. A combination; union
      1. A political bloc in certain European countries
      2. A combination of independent business organizations formed to regulate production, pricing, and marketing of goods by the members.
      3. An association of industrialists, business firms, etc. for establishing a national or international monopoly by price fixing, ownership of controlling stock, etc.; trust
      1. Political or economic union; specif., the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938
      1. A formal agreement establishing such an association, especially an international treaty of friendship.
      2. A close association of nations or other groups, formed to advance common interests or causes:
      3. An allying or being allied; specif., a union or joining, as of families by marriage
    See also:

    politics

    group

    connect

  2. A group of individuals united in a common cause

      1. An exclusive group of people acting privately or illegally to advance their own interests:
      2. Annual ring
      3. A circular band used for carrying, holding, or containing something:
      1. A gathering for social entertainment, or the entertainment itself, often of a specific nature
      2. A group of people who have gathered to participate in an activity:
      3. A group of soldiers selected for a duty or mission:
      1. A literary work or film that is a mix of fact and fiction.
      2. A group of persons forming a cohesive, usually contentious minority within a larger group.
      3. A group of people inside a political party, club, government, etc. working in a common cause against other such groups or against the main body
      1. A power-operated harvesting machine that cuts, threshes, and cleans grain.
      2. A combination.
      3. An association of persons, corporations, etc. for commercial or political, sometimes unethical, purposes
      1. (Math.) Any of the various groupings, or subsets, into which a number, or set, of units may be arranged without regard to order: dual combinations of A, B, C, and D are AB, AC, AD, BC, BD, CD
      2. An alliance of persons or parties for a common purpose; an association.
      3. (Mathematics) One or more elements selected from a set without regard to the order of selection.
      1. A transitory association of animals of the same species in which members join forces against another animal or animals to defend against an attack or gain access to a resource.
      2. An alliance of factions, nations, etc., for some specific purpose, as of political parties in times of national emergency
      3. An alliance, especially a temporary one, of people, factions, parties, or nations.
      1. A combination of independent business organizations formed to regulate production, pricing, and marketing of goods by the members.
      2. An association of industrialists, business firms, etc. for establishing a national or international monopoly by price fixing, ownership of controlling stock, etc.; trust
      3. An official agreement between governments at war, especially one concerning the exchange of prisoners.
    See also:

    group

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Sentence Examples

  • The parties of the Left in the chamber, united upon this question in the Bloc republicain, supported Combes in his application of the law of 1901 on the religious associations, and voted the new bill on the congregations (1904), and under his guidance France took the first definite steps toward the separation of church and state.

  • Since the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, it has been steadily increasing, the Russian peasants of a village often emigrating en bloc.'

  • In 1900 he withdrew from La Justice to found a weekly review, Le Bloc, which lasted until March 1902.

  • The budget presented to the Reichstag by Prince B 610w, which laid new burdens upon the landed and capitalist classes, was fiercely opposed bytheAgrarians, and led to the break-up of the Liberal-Conservative bloc on whose support the chancellor had relied since the elections of 1906.

  • He declared himself a strong partisan of the union of the Left in what is known as the Bloc, in order to check the reactionary deputies of the Right.

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