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語源

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.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /blɒk/
• (General American) IPA: /blɑk/
• 韻: -ɒk
• Homophone: block

名詞

bloc (plural blocs)

1. A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
   • 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 3 June 2020:

     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.

   • 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 July 2025:

     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.

2. A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance.

   military bloc

   trading bloc

   • 2023 August 17, “The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions”, in The Economist‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 August 2023:

     Like the iPod and MySpace, the BRICS bloc is a product of the benign optimism of the 2000s.

派生語

参考

• choc-a-bloc

アナグラム

• CLOB, LCBO