Definition of Military blockade

1. Noun. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Military Blockade

military-entertainment complex
military-industrial complex
military-school
military abduction
military abductions
military academies
military academy
military action
military adviser
military advisor
military antishock trousers
military attache
military attaché
military attachés
military band
military blockade (current term)
military brat
military campaign
military capability
military censorship
military ceremony
military chaplain
military commission
military control
military court
military dentistry
military drill
military engine
military engineer
military engines

Literary usage of Military blockade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The British Fleet in the Great War by Archibald Hurd (1918)
"It falls naturally under three heads : (1) the military blockade, which was supplemented by (2) the commercial blockade, pressed with increasing stringency ..."

2. The British Empire Series (1902)
"By "blockade" is meant military blockade—the blockade of warships by warships. ... military blockade is sanctioned only by force. Even in this latter sense ..."

3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"A military blockade is designed to shut, ... The military blockade, from the point of international law, does not occupy so important a ..."

4. International Law with Illustrative Cases by Edwin Maxey (1906)
"... of July 26,1898, appears to us to have been written wholly from the standpoint of the efficiency of the blockade as a military blockade. ..."

5. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"A military blockade is designed to phut off an enemy from'his source or base of supplies, ... The military blockade, from the point of international law, ..."

6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1864)
"As to what did or did not constitute a " military" blockade, within the meaning of the rule, difficulties would, of course, arise ; but there is no reason ..."

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