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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 togetherplay

  Familiarity information: EN BLOC used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EN BLOC (adverb)


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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