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say it: yoo-ni-LAT-ur-uh-liz-uhm
unilateralism is a noun meaning "the doctrine that nations should conduct their foreign affairs individualistically without the advice or involvement of other nations". It is pronounced /ˌjunɪˈlætɚəˌlɪzəm/ — yoo-ni-LAT-ur-uh-liz-uhm. It carries one recorded sense.
the doctrine that nations should conduct their foreign affairs individualistically without the advice or involvement of other nations
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unilateralism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.