I would like to stress that it is more convenient to control tariffs as a bloc rather than country by country.
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Bloc
//blɒk//
Synonyms for "bloc" (48 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Proper Noun(1 words)
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Related words (24)
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10 entriesTranslations
44 translations across 21 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- كُتْلَة noun (group of voters or politicians)
- كُتْلَة noun (group of countries)
Armenian
4 entries- բլոկ noun (group of voters or politicians)
- բլոկ noun (group of countries)
- դաշինք noun (group of voters or politicians)
- խմբավորում noun (group of voters or politicians)
Bulgarian
2 entries- блок noun (group of countries)
- групировка noun (group of voters or politicians)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 聯合 /联合 noun (group of countries)
- 集團 /集团 noun (group of voters or politicians)
Finnish
4 entries- blokki noun (group of voters or politicians)
- blokki noun (group of countries)
- liittouma noun (group of voters or politicians)
- liittouma noun (group of countries)
French
2 entries- Bloc name (Bloc Québécois)
- bloc noun (group of countries)
German
2 entries- Block noun (group of voters or politicians)
- Block noun (group of countries)
Greek
1 entries- μπλοκ noun (group of countries)
Hebrew
1 entries- גוש noun (group of countries)
Italian
2 entries- blocco noun (group of voters or politicians)
- blocco noun (group of countries)
Japanese
1 entries- 連合 noun (group of countries)
Korean
1 entries- 연합 noun (group of countries)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- блок m бирикме noun (group of voters or politicians)
Norwegian
2 entries- blokk noun (group of voters or politicians)
- blokk noun (group of countries)
Persian
1 entries- بلوک noun (group of countries)
Polish
2 entries- blok noun (group of voters or politicians)
- blok noun (group of countries)
Portuguese
2 entries- bloco noun (group of voters or politicians)
- bloco noun (group of countries)
Russian
3 entries- блок noun (group of voters or politicians)
- блок noun (group of countries)
- группиро́вка noun (group of voters or politicians)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- blȍk noun (group of voters or politicians)
- blȍk noun (group of countries)
- бло̏к noun (group of voters or politicians)
- бло̏к noun (group of countries)
Spanish
2 entries- bloque noun (group of voters or politicians)
- bloque noun (group of countries)
Swedish
2 entries- block noun (group of voters or politicians)
- block noun (group of countries)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Those agenda items were taken up en bloc for discussion.
Source: tatoeba (42001)
The Latino voting bloc in the US is increasingly a force to be reckoned with.
Source: tatoeba (2059123)
India and China are two BRIC bloc countries.
Source: tatoeba (3168541)
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