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7 VERB If you block something that is being arranged, you prevent it from being done. □ [V n] For years the country has tried to block imports of various cheap foreign products.

8 N‑COUNT A block of something such as tickets or shares is a large quantity of them, especially when they are all sold at the same time and are in a particular sequence or order. □ [+ of ] Those booking a block of seats get them at reduced rates.

9 N‑COUNT If you have a mental block or a block , you are temporarily unable to do something that you can normally do which involves using, thinking about, or remembering something.

10 → see also breeze-block , building block , roadblock , starting block , stumbling block , tower block

11a chip off the old block → see chip

▸  block in PHRASAL VERB If you are blocked in , someone has parked their car in such a way that you cannot drive yours away. □ [get V -ed P ] Our cars get blocked in and we can't leave for ages. □ [V n P ] Oh, is that your car outside? I may have blocked you in. [Also V P n]

▸  block off PHRASAL VERB When you block off a door, window, or passage, you put something across it so that nothing can pass through it. □ [V P n] They had blocked off the fireplaces to stop draughts. [Also V n P ]

▸  block out

1 PHRASAL VERB If someone blocks out a thought, they try not to think about it. □ [V P n] She accuses me of having blocked out the past. □ [V n P + of ] I had to block the thought out of my mind.

2 PHRASAL VERB Something that blocks out light prevents it from reaching a place. □ [V P n] Thick chipboard across the window frames blocked out the daylight. □ [V n P ] Those clouds would have cast shadows that would have blocked some sunlight out.

block|ade /blɒke I d/ (blockades , blockading , blockaded )

1 N‑COUNT A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it. □ [+ of ] Striking lorry drivers agreed to lift their blockades of main roads. □ [+ of ] …the economic blockade of Lithuania.

2 VERB If a group of people blockade a place, they stop goods or people from reaching that place. If they blockade a road or a port, they stop people using that road or port. □ [V n] Truck drivers have blockaded roads to show their anger over new driving regulations. [Also V -ed]

block|age /blɒ k I dʒ/ (blockages ) N‑COUNT A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked. □  …a total blockage in one of the coronary arteries.

block|bust|er /blɒ kbʌstə ^r / (blockbusters ) N‑COUNT A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting. [INFORMAL ]

block|bust|ing /blɒ kbʌst I ŋ/ ADJ [ADJ n] A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting. [JOURNALISM , INFORMAL ] □  …a four-hour blockbusting disaster movie spread over two nights.

blo ck ca pi|tals N‑PLURAL [usu in N ] Block capitals are simple capital letters that are not decorated in any way.

blo ck le t|ters N‑PLURAL [usu in N ] Block letters are the same as block capitals .

blo ck vo te (block votes ) N‑COUNT A block vote is a large number of votes that are all cast in the same way by one person on behalf of a group of people.

blog /blɒ g, [AM ] blɔː g/ (blogs , blogging , blogged )