The meaning of BLOCK is a compact usually solid piece of substantial material especially when worked or altered to serve a particular purpose. How to use block in a sentence.

11 hours ago · Block, the company behind Square, Cash App and Afterpay, is cutting its staff by 40%. The reason: “intelligence tools,” according to a letter to shareholders by co-founder Jack Dorsey.

BLOCK meaning: 1. the distance along a street from where one road crosses it to the place where the next road…. Learn more.

BLOCK meaning: 1 : a solid piece of material (such as rock or wood) that has flat sides and is usually square or rectangular in shape; 2 : an area of land surrounded by four streets in a city

10 hours ago · Block, the financial technology company that owns Square, Cash App and Tidal, said on Thursday that it was cutting 40 percent of its work force as it embraced new artificial intelligence tools.

12 hours ago · Block, the parent company of Square and the Cash App, is conducting a major reorganization in the age of artificial intelligence. The payment-technology company plans to cut …

If you block something that is being arranged, you prevent it from being done. For years the country has tried to block imports of various cheap foreign products.

Made up of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy.

34. (often foll by up) to obstruct (a passage, channel, etc) or prevent or impede the motion or flow of (something or someone) by introducing an obstacle: to block the traffic; to block up a pipe.

Definition of block noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.