In this article one-sided (b, c)-inverses of arbitrary matrices as well as one-sided inverses along a (not necessarily square) matrix, will be studied. In adddition, the (b, c)-inverse and the inverse along an element will be also researched in the context of rectangular matrices.Keywords: One-sided (b, c)-inverse; One-sided inverse along an element; (b, c)-inverse; Inverse along an element; Matrices AMS classification: 15A09, 15A23, 15A60, 65F99 Definition 2.7. Let A ∈ n,m and D, E ∈ m,n .(i) The matrix A is said to be left (D, E)-invertible, if there exists C ∈ m,n such that CAD = D and N(E) ⊆ N(C). Any matrix C satisfying these conditions is said to be a left (D, E)-inverse of A.The proofs of the following results are straightforward and they are left to the reader.Remark 2.8. Let A ∈ n,m and D, E ∈ m,n . The following statements holdn such that R(D ′ ) = R(D) and N(E ′ ) = N(E). The following statement holds. (iii) The matrix A is left (D, E)-invertible if and only if it is left (D ′ , E ′ )-invertible. In addition, in this case C ∈ m,n is a left (D, E)-inverse of A if and only if it is a left (D ′ , E ′ )-inverse of A. (iv) The matrix A is right (D, E)-invertible if and only if it is right (D ′ , E ′ )-invertible. Moreover, in this case B ∈ m,n is a right (D, E)-inverse of A if and only if it is a right (D ′ , E ′ )-inverse of A.When the matrices D, E ∈ m,n in Definition 2.7 coincide, the notions of left and right inverse along a matrix can be introduced.Definition 2.9. Let A ∈ n,m and D ∈ m,n .(i) The matrix A is said to be left invertible along D, if there exists C ∈ m,n such that CAD = D and N(D) ⊆ N(C). Any matrix C satisfying these conditions is said to be a left inverse of A along D.(ii) The matrix A is said to be right invertible along D, if there exists B ∈ m,n such that DAB = D and R(B) ⊆ R(D). Any matrix B satisfying these conditions is said to be a right inverse of A along D.Note that similar results to the ones in Remark 2.8 for the case D = E ∈ m,n hold for left and right invertible matrices along a matrix. The details are left to the reader.Recall that given a ring R and a, b, c ∈ R, in [13, Definition 2.3] the left and right annihilator (b, c)-inverses of the element a were introduced. However, in the case of matrices, as under the conditions of [13, Proposition 2.5], these notions coincide with the ones in Definition 2.7.