adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bilateral agreement formal (= between two countries or groups )
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a bilateral agreement between the UK and Korean governments
a bilateral treaty (= one signed by two countries )
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Uzbekistan and Russia signed a bilateral treaty of friendship.
bilateral talks (= involving two groups or countries )
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Bilateral talks led to the resumption of diplomatic relations.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agreement
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A few other countries have adhoc bilateral agreements with particular neighbours.
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Trade in agricultural products would be covered by bilateral agreements .
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Like the air-quality study, releasing its results also requires bilateral agreement .
aid
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Eighty percent of our bilateral aid goes to the poorest countries.
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The industrialized world now contributes about $ 1 billion per year through bilateral aid programs to relieve urban congestion.
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The rest, the bilateral aid budget, is spent directly by governments in developing countries.
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If the Tories were elected Mr Streeter would double the amount of the bilateral aid budget that goes to the charities.
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Fifty years of bilateral aid programmes does not seem to have done much to reduce global poverty.
issue
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By mutual agreement the talks were expanded to include other bilateral issues .
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In his two meetings with President Roh Tae Woo the two leaders discussed a wide range of bilateral issues .
negotiation
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A trade that purports to have been executed in the exchange's competitive trading system is in fact pre-arranged by bilateral negotiation .
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Bush suggested that the conference would dissolve into a series of bilateral negotiations , but would be periodically reconvened.
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The document envisaged six months of bilateral negotiations over programmes and funding.
relationship
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Article 6 assumes a series of delimitation agreements between adjacent States allowing for bilateral relationships within the overall multilateral regime.
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These serial bilateral relationships are created both by treaties and the operation of rules of customary international law.
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While there is no third party mechanism for determining this, the breakdown into bilateral relationships will continue.
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The problems between allies could be solved within the bilateral relationship .
trade
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Gradually the new global masterplan is falling into place: a series of massive bilateral trade agreements are being struck.
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While accounting identities always hold, they say nothing about bilateral trade deficits or surpluses.
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They provided for the promotion of bilateral trade and for increased co-operation against drug trafficking.
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While differences over duties remain, bilateral trade continues to grow.
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Talks centred on increasing bilateral trade and plans for a tunnel or bridge link between the two countries.
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Walesa's visit was also intended to boost bilateral trade and cultural exchanges.
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For 1991, however, bilateral trade was to be balanced and the two-way total reduced to under US$1,000 million.
treaty
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The diplomatic channel was generally used, and few bilateral treaties dealt with the subject.
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Even bilateral treaties impinge upon non-parties: the distribution of values between two parties can rarely be contained within neatly drawn lines.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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bilateral relations between the European Union and the U.S.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both countries have a stake in using the World Trade Organization and in not allowing trade disputes to poison bilateral relations.
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Perhaps then the apparent bilateral representation of language in young children was an artefact.
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The act of the directing mind is here unilateral and not consensual and bilateral .
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The talks were due to include discussions of measures to reduce tension between the two states and to promote bilateral exchanges.
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This is an index of the average of all its bilateral rates, weighted by the pattern of trade with other countries.
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While accounting identities always hold, they say nothing about bilateral trade deficits or surpluses.