unilaterally
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- adverb
- /ˌjuːnɪˈlætərəli/
:
de manera unilateral
- In the meantime, the Obama administration was prepared to act unilaterally against terrorist threats in Pakistan.
- act unilaterally
- decide unilaterally
- withdraw unilaterally
And I'm, you know, unilaterally making all these decisions.
- And I'm, you know, unilaterally making all these decisions.
- And so he just decides he's going to take action unilaterally and, and do this.
- And then didn't, also didn't unilaterally say, hey, Ukraine's not going to be a part of NATO.
- And I, I just don't see how there's no possibility of unilaterally stopping Bitcoin or destroying it.
- He was able to unilaterally raise it for federal workers.
- It can be a conversation with your partner, but you do not have to unilaterally adjust to what works for them.
- For her to release this photo, which nobody believes, she just did it unilaterally.
- So, you know, I, I think that it is always dangerous when presidents take make decisions unilaterally on their own.
- So if Adobe decides unilaterally to downgrade rather than upgrade some function, you are going to be forced to go along with it whether you like it or not.
- I mean, the OR the overreactor, they come with such and they move unilaterally.
- What I think the world of commerce needs is an upgrade from someone can unilaterally decide what the truth is.
- And the allegations from the left are unilaterally that these nominees are unqualified.
- They had to have people like Stalin and Berrier, you know, who actually made decisions unanimously sort of thing on unilaterally rather.
Examples
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The programming structure and proposed changes have been unilaterally made by the cable industry.
Academic text (1991) -
The company decided to implement the new policy unilaterally, without consulting the employees.
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Right after we had spent a particularly difficult month together in London, I decided unilaterally to end it.
Fiction book (1993) -
And I'm, you know, unilaterally making all these decisions.
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Many felt the US should act unilaterally, ignoring the objections of its allies.
Academic text (2013) -
During the Cold War, U.S. officials always reserved the right to act unilaterally, even while they nurtured alliances.
Academic text (2011) -
By mid-1971, the pressure on the dollar became intolerable, and President Richard Nixon unilaterally abandoned the gold exchange standard.
Academic text (1999) -
His successor, Ehud Olmert, hoped to unilaterally withdraw from most of the West Bank as well.
Academic text (2012) -
He unilaterally changed the meeting date, not considering anyone else's schedule.
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Many nations believed that acting unilaterally could lead to conflicts with international partners.
Synonyms
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Without help from other people
Showing support for only one side
Antonyms
How One-Sided
Surface Forms
Morphology
unilaterally = unilateral (transparent) = uni + lateral + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to 'unilateral', so the meaning 'in a one-sided manner' is directly derived.
Etymology
Unilaterally starts with uni- meaning 'one' and has lateral meaning 'side', as in bilateral ('two-sided'). So, to act unilaterally is to make a decision or take action from one 'side' alone, without asking or including others.