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En bloc

En bloc \En` bloc"\ [F. Cf. Block, n. ] In a lump; as a whole; all together. ``Movement of the ossicles en bloc.''
--Nature.

En bloc they are known as ``the herd''.
--W. A. Fraser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
en bloc

French, literally "in a block" (see block (n.)).

Wiktionary
en bloc

adv. as a whole; in a mass; all together

WordNet
en bloc

adv. all together; "the students turned out en masse" [syn: en masse, as a group]

Wikipedia
En Bloc
''For the word en bloc, see en bloc.''

En Bloc is a Singaporean drama produced by Mediacorp, a local TV station.

Usage examples of "en bloc".

Unless those Science Directors with Rebel leanings voted en bloc to avert it, the Directorate would try to shoot him down again.

You could fire the eight cartridges in its en bloc clip as fast as you could pull the trigger.

Marie, did not draft their trained young graduates en bloc, and trade oiF their contracts to other worlds without consulting the wishes of the individual.

Marie, did not draft their trained young graduates en bloc, and trade off their contracts to other worlds without consulting the wishes of the individual.

Actually, of course, as was well known, this was a precaution against the danger of hiring, en bloc, unwittingly, an organized group of men, who might, prior to their hiring, have formed a plan to slay the guards and merchants and make off with the caravan.

In diis case, the surprising fact was the size of the fragment of planetary crust that seemed to have been thrust upward en bloc.

Because of the nature of the task, however, pilot substitution or replacement never occurred en bloc.

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 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.

Next I dissected the tissue around the ring and placed it en bloc in formalin.

Oliver thought, have been lifted en bloc from the Great West Road and, first deprived of some such legend as SLYLARK'S FEATHER RAZOR BLADES, have been deposited as a block of flats in situ.

Or else they could have sold it en bloc at the time, or later, and the purchaser has just decided to cash in.

By buying his set of leatherbound classics en bloc from a door-to-door salesman, Trilling's father committed the additional heresy, unimaginable to us, of believing that a library could be one-size-fits-all rather than bespoke.