set up a blockade
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blockade — ► NOUN ▪ an act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving. ► VERB ▪ set up a blockade of. ● run a blockade Cf. ↑run a blockade … English terms dictionary
blockade — 01. The road to the forest was [blockaded] by protesters trying to stop the logging company from cutting down the centuries old trees. 02. The police had set up a [blockade] to keep demonstrators from entering the Legislative Buildings. 03.… … Grammatical examples in English
blockade — noun 1》 an act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving. 2》 an obstruction of a biochemical or other physiological function. verb set up a blockade of. Phrases run a blockade (of a ship) manage to enter or leave… … English new terms dictionary
Blockade of Wonsan — Part of the Korean War An explosion destroys North Korean supplies during the blockade of Wonsan … Wikipedia
Blockade Strategy Board — The Blockade Strategy Board of the American Civil War, also known variously as the Commission of Conference or as the Du Pont Board, was a group of four men, meeting in the summer of 1861 at the request of the Navy Department, who laid out a… … Wikipedia
Blockade — (March 1915 July 1919) a weapon instituted by England during the first year of World War I. Retained as a concept almost by accident in the early twentieth century, it was by 1917 the preeminent weapon in the Allied arsenal. Through its… … Historical dictionary of Weimar Republik
Blockade of the Gaza Strip — The Blockade of the Gaza Strip refers to the blockade Israel imposed, beginning in June 2007, on the Hamas governed Gaza Strip (a region of the Palestinian territories.)TimelineInitiationFollowing the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, Israel… … Wikipedia
Union blockade — Part of the American Civil War An 1861 cartoon map of the blockade, known as Winfield Scott … Wikipedia
Berlin Blockade — Operation Vittles redirects here. For the 1948 documentary film, see Operation Vittles (film). Berliners watching a C 54 land at Tempelhof Airport (1948) … Wikipedia
Operation: Blockade — Developer(s) Screaming Games Publisher(s) Infogrames Plat … Wikipedia
Paper blockade — Paper Pa per (p[=a] p[ e]r), n. [F. papier, fr. L. papyrus papyrus, from which the Egyptians made a kind of paper, Gr. pa pyros. Cf. {Papyrus}.] 1. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
