world trade center

plural world trade centers

1. A building that houses all the facilities associated with global commerce.

   Synonyms: WTC

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 28, 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

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   Abdul Basit’s life as one of America’s most-wanted men came to an end almost as suddenly as it began. His alleged co-conspirators in the World Trade Center bombing had implicated “Ramzi Yousef” when they were arrested, and the F.B.I. had on several occasions laid elaborate plans to capture him in Pakistan, but each time he had been alerted and had disappeared, either into Karachi’s un derground or across the border into Afghanistan.

   1995 June 5, Mary Anne Weaver, “Children of the Jihad”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2016

   The twin towers of the World Trade Center soared so majestically over the Manhattan skyline that, from the pavement below, it was hard to believe that the writhing shapes falling from the upper storeys were office workers who had jumped to escape the flames.

   2001 September 12, James Bone, “When war came to America”, in The Times, number 67,242, page 1

   Synonyms: World Trade

2. The previous configuration of this complex, from 1968 until 9/11: the former World Trade Center.