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[ yoo-nuh-lat-er-uhl ] / ˌyu nəˈlæt ər əl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR unilateral ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiverelating to, occurring on, or involving one side only: unilateral development; a unilateral approach. undertaken or done by or on behalf of one side, party, or faction only; not mutual: a unilateral decision; unilateral disarmament. having only one side or surface; without a reverse side or inside, as a Möbius strip. Law. - pertaining to a contract that can be formed only when the party to whom an offer is made renders the performance for which the offeror bargains.
- pertaining to a contract in which obligation rests on only one party, as a binding promise to make a gift.
Botany. having all the parts disposed on one side of an axis, as an inflorescence. through forebears of one sex only, as through either the mother's or father's line.Compare bilateral (def. 5). Phonetics. (of an l-sound) characterized by passage of air on only one side of the tongue. Origin of unilateralFrom the New Latin word ūnilaterālis, dating back to 1795–1805. See uni-, lateral OTHER WORDS FROM unilateralu·ni·lat·er·al·i·ty, nounu·ni·lat·er·al·ly, adverbWords nearby unilateraluniformize, uniform resource locator, unify, uniglandular, unijugate, unilateral, unilateral anesthesia, Unilateral Declaration of Independence, unilateral hemianopsia, unilateral hermaphroditism, unilateralism Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for unilateralThe amendment was later repealed when all 50 state governors raised objections to what they perceived as a grant of unilateral power to the president. Can The President Really Order The Military To Occupy US Cities And States?|LGBTQ-Editor|June 3, 2020|No Straight News Under these circumstances, the kind of unilateral executive action Obama is undertaking will become more and more common. Why Did Obama Flip-Flop on Immigration?|Paul Campos|November 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST To be clear, unilateral Democratic control is just as problematic as the reverse. GOP States’ Hitlist: Abortion, Unions & Hillary|Nancy Kaffer|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST He spoke to Putin on June 17 and came away offering a “unilateral cease-fire.” Putin Is Just Getting Started in Ukraine|Michael Weiss|June 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But my unilateral declaration of an end to the kulturkampf was depressingly naive. Warning: This Column Will Offend You|Michael Moynihan|April 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST Unilateral implementation of certain aspects of the Dream Act never passed by Congress? The ‘Defining Issue of Our Time’ Is Obama’s Constitutional Excesses|Ron Christie|January 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST As a rule, both sides of the tongue are involved; exceptionally, the affection is unilateral. A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II|Various These checks from degeneracy in arrest of development are apt to affect most obviously the unilateral development of the face. Degeneracy|Eugene S. Talbot "I think it's the damnedest, trickiest, most unilateral piece of legalistics I've ever seen," Kennon said bluntly. The Lani People|J. F. Bone Moreover, the tropic action of unilateral light may become nastic by internal diffusion of excitation. Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919|Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose The response to unilateral stimulation of the tip of the seedling. Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919|Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
British Dictionary definitions for unilateral
adjectiveof, having, affecting, or occurring on only one side involving or performed by only one party of severalunilateral disarmament law (of contracts, obligations, etc) made by, affecting, or binding one party only and not involving the other party in reciprocal obligations botany having or designating parts situated or turned to one side of an axis sociol relating to or tracing the line of descent through ancestors of one sex onlyCompare bilateral (def. 5) phonetics denoting an (l) sound produced on one side of the tongue only Derived forms of unilateralunilateralism or unilaterality, noununilaterally, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to unilateralone-sided, independent Medical definitions for unilateral
adj.On, having, or confined to only one side. Other words from unilateralu′ni•lat′er•al•ly adv.The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |