What is another word for bloc?

Pronunciation: [blˈɒk] (IPA)

"Bloc" is a commonly used term to describe a group of people or countries that work together towards a common goal. However, sometimes using the same word repeatedly can become dull. A few alternative synonyms for "bloc" include "coalition," which implies a temporary or strategic partnership; "alliance," which implies a longer-term, legally binding agreement between parties; and "faction," which implies a smaller, more factionalized group. Other possible synonyms include "coalition of states" or "united front." Each of these terms can help to add a little variety to your language and add depth to your writing.

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Usage examples for Bloc

At the time I was in the school, the interference of politics had just begun to make itself felt in the schools, but the corporation had not the courage to introduce its system on a large scale by supplanting en bloc the society schools, which might have made a political revolt; the Irish Catholic influence was still a feeble one, and the population at large was hardly aware of its tendency, but as the ward schools were gradually brought into active competition with the society schools the children were drawn off from the latter by various inducements and pressure on the parents.
"The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I"
William James Stillman
How well Mr. McLaren succeeded in moving whole gardens "en bloc" to the Exposition is shown by the fact that with the exception of a few Monterey cypresses on one of the lagoon islands, not a single tree has died.
"The Art of the Exposition"
Eugen Neuhaus
That a poor man should give up his savings en bloc to help a friend would have seemed to him natural and reasonable; that he should do so for honest love of a woman still more so; but that a millionaire should renounce his millions!
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan

Famous quotes with Bloc

  • And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
    Samuel P. Huntington
  • But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.
    Karl Lehmann
  • I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc.
    John Negroponte
  • As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc.
    Joshua A. Tucker
  • If South Korea's dictatorships were America's running dogs, then North Korea was the Eastern bloc's house cat: intractable, convinced of its superiority, and to some observers a more independent creature, but never much good at feeding itself—even after the can openers started falling silent in 1989.
    Brian Reynolds Myers

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