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EN BLOC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does en bloc mean?
• EN BLOC (adverb)
The adverb EN BLOC has 1 sense:
1. all together
Familiarity information: EN BLOC used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
All together
Synonyms:
as a group; en bloc; en masse
Context example:
the students turned out en masse
Context examples
An area, as large perhaps as Sussex, has been lifted up en bloc with all its living contents, and cut off by perpendicular precipices of a hardness which defies erosion from all the rest of the continent.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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