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World Trade

World Trade is the ellipsis of World Trade Center.

Meaning of World Trade Center

Proper noun

the World Trade Center

  1. A complex of buildings in New York City, three of which were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, including the Twin Towers. New buildings were built to replace the destroyed buildings, one of the new buildings is the Freedom Tower.
    • To obtain this information we contacted a source at the World Trade Center itself who provided us with a value for the height above sea-level for Tower Two of 417 ± 1 m.1992 February, Robert O'Keefe, Bahman Ghavimi-Alagha, “The World Trade Center and the distance to the world's center”, in American Journal of Physics, volume 60, number 2, →DOI, page 184
    Synonyms:
    World Trade
  2. The previous configuration of this complex, from 1968 until 9/11: the former World Trade Center.

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Questions about World Trade

What is World Trade the ellipsis of?
World Trade is the ellipsis of World Trade Center.

Words near World Trade in the dictionary

  1. world soul
  2. world souls
  3. world state
  4. world states
  5. world to come
  6. World Trade
  7. world trade center
  8. world trade centers
  9. World Trade Organisation
  10. World Trade Organization
  11. world tree

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Adapted from Wiktionary: World Trade (page history and authors); World Trade Center (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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