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Multilateral definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MULTILAT'ERAL, a. [L. multus, many, and latus, side.]many sides. A multilateral figure must also be multangular.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having many parts or sides [syn: multilateral, many- sided] [ant: one-sided, unilateral]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1696 1. having many sides 2. involving or participated in by more than two nations or parties <multilateral agreements> • multilateralism noun • multilateralist noun • multilaterally adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 a (of an agreement, treaty, conference, etc.) in which three or more parties participate. b performed by more than one party (multilateral disarmament). 2 having many sides. Derivatives: multilaterally adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Multilateral Mul`ti*lat"er*al, a. [Multi- + lateral.] Having many sides; many-sided.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Multilateral means involving at least three different groups of people or nations. Many want to abandon the multilateral trade talks in Geneva. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

bifacial, bilateral, dihedral, flanked, handed, lateral, many-sided, multiangular, one-sided, polygonal, polyhedral, prismatic, prismoid, pyramidal, pyramidic, quadrilateral, sided, tetrahedral, three-sided, trihedral, trilateral, triquetrous, two-sided, unilateral