bilateralism

¹ Cultural  

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

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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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bilateralism

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

And although the movement's freeze resolutions call for "bilateralism," the daunting difficulties implicit in U.S.-Soviet negotiations are rarely given more than glancing, wishful consideration.

From Time Magazine Archive

Until reconstruction is really under way and the present imbalance in trade substantially reduced, a large measure of bilateralism and even of barter will undoubtedly persist.

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

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