multilateral

From multi- +‎ lateral.

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• Rhymes: -ætəɹəl

multilateral (not comparable)

1. Having many physical sides.
2. Having many sides or points of view.
3. (politics) Involving three or more parties or nations.

   a multilateral negotiation

   • 1993, James Rochlin, Discovering the Americas: The Evolution of Canadian Foreign Policy Towards Latin America, page 223:

     Canada has continued to work within this agency to promote a multilateral solution to the problems of narcotrafficking and narcoterrorism.

   • 2017 February 22, Ivana Kottasova, “$1 trillion free trade agreement enters force”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     That is a sore point for the U.S. President Trump. He has in the past spoken against multilateral trade agreements. He argued that the deals give too much advantage to America's trading partners and lead to job losses in the U.S.

multilateral (plural multilaterals)

1. (politics) A group with representatives from three or more parties or nations.

From multi- +‎ lateral.

• Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧la‧te‧ral

multilateral m or f (plural multilaterais)

1. multilateral (having many sides or points of view)
2. multilateral (involving more than one party)

• “multilateral”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from French multilatéral. By surface analysis, multi- +‎ lateral.

multilateral m or n (feminine singular multilaterală, masculine plural multilaterali, feminine and neuter plural multilaterale)

1. multilateral

From multi- +‎ lateral.

• IPA^(key): /multilateˈɾal/ [mul̪.t̪i.la.t̪eˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: mul‧ti‧la‧te‧ral

multilateral m or f (masculine and feminine plural multilaterales)

1. multilateral
   • 2015 July 31, “La ‘Colección Mexicana’ en Chile: una historia de solidaridad”, in El País‎^[2]:

     Por un lado, se propuso ejecutar una política de mayor activismo y estrecho acercamiento hacia mecanismos multilaterales como el Movimiento de los países No Alineados, el Grupo de los 77 y, en general, el Tercer Mundo.

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• “multilateral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024