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unilateral The Japanese Constitution of 1947 includes a unilateral rejection of warfare as an option for their country. ˌjunəˈlætərəl

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(1) Done by one person or party; one-sided. (2) Affecting one side of the body. The world is a smaller place than it used to be, and we get uncomfortable when a single nation adopts a policy of unilateralism—that is, acting independently with little regard for what the rest of the world thinks. A unilateral invasion of another country, for instance, usually looks like a grab for power and resources. But occasionally the world welcomes a unilateral action, as when the U.S. announced unilateral nuclear-arms reductions in the early 1990s. Previously, such reductions had only happened as part of bilateral (“two-sided”) agreements with the old Soviet Union. Multilateral agreements, on issues such as climate change, often involve most of the world's nations.

word	unilateral
definition	(1) Done by one person or party; one-sided. (2) Affecting one side of the body.
eg_sentence	The Japanese Constitution of 1947 includes a unilateral rejection of warfare as an option for their country.
explanation	The world is a smaller place than it used to be, and we get uncomfortable when a single nation adopts a policy of unilateralism—that is, acting independently with little regard for what the rest of the world thinks. A unilateral invasion of another country, for instance, usually looks like a grab for power and resources. But occasionally the world welcomes a unilateral action, as when the U.S. announced unilateral nuclear-arms reductions in the early 1990s. Previously, such reductions had only happened as part of bilateral (“two-sided”) agreements with the old Soviet Union. Multilateral agreements, on issues such as climate change, often involve most of the world's nations.
IPA	ˌjunəˈlætərəl

Unilateral World Reductions Person Party One Sided Affecting Side