World Trade Center

noun

1. WTC. a name licensed by World Trade Centers Association to its members to identify any of a number of iconic buildings worldwide to promote world trade and international business relationships; one such former building complex, at 417m (1368 ft), the tallest in the US, stood in Manhattan, New York, from 1974 until its destruction on September 11, 2001, in which 2,750 people died; reconstruction of the complex began in 2002

World Trade Center

1. World Trade Center (WTC) A trademark for various building complexes around the world that house organizations and businesses supporting international commerce. The World Trade Center in lower MANHATTAN included two tall skyscrapers, the Twin Towers, that were destroyed when terrorist-hijacked planes were crashed into them as part of the SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS (2001). Reconstruction of new buildings began in 2002.

Example Sentences

His analysis of American imperatives in the Middle East was plausible—up to the moment when hijacked passenger jets hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

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The U.S. stock market had fallen by more than it had since the first day of trading after the attack on the World Trade Center.

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“Well, that makes no sense at all, if 19 guys with airline tickets and box cutters can take down the World Trade Center and Pentagon.”

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Mohammed is accused of organising and directing the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, in which hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing almost 3,000 people.

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A BBC journalist who was at the top of the World Trade Center at the time of the crash said there were about a dozen boats surrounding the site of the crash.

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