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en bloc

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en bloc  (ä blôk, n blk)
adv.
As a unit; all together: "I have been drawing our attention to the public and private qualities of the several arts lest they be treated en bloc" (William H. Gass).
[French : en, in + bloc, lump, bloc.]
en bloc French [ɑ̃ blɔk]
adv
in a lump or block; as a body or whole; all together
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Adv.1.en bloc - all together; "the students turned out en masse"
as a group, en masse
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en bloc [ˌɒnˈblɒk] adv [act] (= en masse) [resign, vote] → en bloc
en bloc
adv → en bloc; to resign en bloc → geschlossen zurücktreten


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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 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
The story has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads on to the complete truth.
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