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  • noun informal A bilateral meeting.

Etymologies

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Shortening of bilateral.

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Examples

  • Her first reaction had been that the bilat was a computer-generated graphic.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2003

  • Brown was also the first to arrive and settled into a breakneck pace of diplomacy, even squeezing a bilateral meeting into his half hour at the royal suite at Heathrow (abbreviated to 'bilat', to emphasise the rush).

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • Indian officials decided to cut agreed-upon number of WH pool allowed into spray of extended bilat meeting between Obama and Singh from eight to five.

    Trailing Obama on White House 'pool duty' Scott Wilson 2010

  • Obama will spend most of his day at the Intercontinental Hotel in Toronto, where he will participate in a series of one-on-one (bilateral) meetings with some of the world leaders, something officials call a "bilat."

    A guide to Obama's weekend at the G-20 summit 2010

  • White House press aide Katie Lillie and other U.S. officials lobbied hard for the eight, but no luck until Gibbs announced loudly and persistently on steps of Hyderabad House that he would pull POTUS out of bilat with PM Singh unless "the White House 8," as we've come to be known, were all allowed in.

    Trailing Obama on White House 'pool duty' Scott Wilson 2010

  • Rhodes was still working on the speech on his laptop when Obama had his “bilat” with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.

    THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

  • Obama will spend most of his day at the Intercontinental Hotel in Toronto, where he will participate in a series of one-on-one (bilateral) meetings with some of the world leaders, something officials call a "bilat."

    A guide to Obama's weekend at the G-20 summit 2010

  • Obama will spend most of his day at the Intercontinental Hotel in Toronto, where he will participate in a series of one-on-one (bilateral) meetings with some of the world leaders, something officials call a "bilat."

    A guide to Obama's weekend at the G-20 summit 2010

  • Obama will spend most of his day at the Intercontinental Hotel in Toronto, where he will participate in a series of one-on-one (bilateral) meetings with some of the world leaders, something officials call a "bilat."

    A guide to Obama's weekend at the G-20 summit 2010

  • Obama will spend most of his day at the Intercontinental Hotel in Toronto, where he will participate in a series of one-on-one (bilateral) meetings with some of the world leaders, something officials call a "bilat."

    A guide to Obama's weekend at the G-20 summit 2010

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  • “The club is “a place to see and be seen,” as its Web site says — that is, unless you are a visiting president who after a day and a half of blinis, beluga and bilats (the diplo term for “bilateral meetings”) just wants to hang out with the clan.”

    The New York Times, Obama Dines In, to Some Russians’ Distaste, by Peter Baker, July 7, 2009

    July 8, 2009