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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024u•ni•lat•er•al /ˌyunəˈlætərəl/USA pronunciation adj. - undertaken or done by or on behalf of one side, party, or group only;
not mutual:unilateral disarmament; a unilateral decision.
See -uni-, -lat-2. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024u•ni•lat•er•al (yo̅o̅′nə lat′ər əl),USA pronunciation adj. - relating 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. - Mathematicshaving only one side or surface;
without a reverse side or inside, as a Möbius strip. - Lawmaking
- 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.
- [Bot.]having all the parts disposed on one side of an axis, as an inflorescence.
- Anthropologythrough forebears of one sex only, as through either the mother's or father's line. Cf. bilateral (def. 5).
- Phonetics(of an l-sound) characterized by passage of air on only one side of the tongue.
- Neo-Latin ūnilaterālis. See uni-, lateral
- 1795–1805
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: unilateral /ˌjuːnɪˈlætərəl/ adj - of, having, affecting, or occurring on only one side
- involving or performed by only one party of several: unilateral disarmament
- (of contracts, obligations, etc) made by, affecting, or binding one party only and not involving the other party in reciprocal obligations
- having or designating parts situated or turned to one side of an axis
ˌuniˈlateralism, ˌuniˌlaterˈality n ˌuniˈlaterally adv |