unilateral contract

1. 1.

   a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise)

   Broaderagreement

Questions about unilateral contract

What does unilateral contract mean?

unilateral contract means "a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise)".

Is unilateral contract a common word?

unilateral contract is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.