bloc betydelse and definition

Betydelse av bloc på svenska

• 0 a group of countries or people that have similar political interests:

  • The European Union is a powerful trading/trade bloc.

  • the former Eastern/Communist bloc countries

• 1 a group of countries or people that have similar goals and work together to achieve them:

  • a powerful voting bloc

• 2 a group of countries who share the same economic and financial aims, and who do business with each other with reduced taxes:

  • EU heads of state agreed on the bloc's environmental goals at a meeting on March 9.

  • trade/trading bloc They would like to turn Europe and North America into a single trading bloc.

• 3 a currency bloc