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bilateralism

1 Cultural  
  1. Trade or diplomatic relations between two countries. (See diplomacy and recognition; compare multilateralism and unilateralism.)


bilateralism 2 Cultural  
  1. Trade dealings between two countries.


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Bilateral agreements often create special terms for specific goods traded between two countries.

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New Zealand has long maintained a warm relationship with the United States, but few measures of bilateralism are as meaningful as the one that occurred on Thursday.

From Time Jan. 3, 2014

Associated with bilateralism is the beginning of cephalization, the evolution of a concentration of nervous tissues and sensory organs in the head of the organism, which is where the organism first encounters its environment.

From Textbooks Apr. 25, 2013

He opposed "automatic flexibility" of exchange through a central pool for multilateral ECA transfers between European nations; Cripps proposed "organized flexibility," which meant continuance of bilateralism.

From Time Magazine Archive

The 123 agreements signed among 23 nations which were planning the International Trade Organization add up to more barter and bilateralism, and, probably, to a reduced flow of goods from country to country.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there is nothing whatsoever in this Agreement that would operate . . . to increase bilateralism and barter or to reduce the flow of goods.

From Time Magazine Archive

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