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East-West

[ eest-west ]

adjective

  1. occurring between the East and the West, especially, formerly, occurring between the Soviet Union and the U.S.:

    East-West trade; East-West relations.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of East-West1

First recorded in 1955–60

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Example Sentences

In this environment, minor provocations on Russia's post-Soviet periphery could spiral quickly into full-scale East-West crises.

I was at the East-West Center in Hawaii a few years ago for a faith-media seminar.

This contact is on the southern side of the granite ridge, the crest of which is approximately east-west.

Another east-west wall, of which only remnants were found, joined Wall E and its southern terminus.

The north-south course runs 100 feet to its junction with the northern east-west segment.

Western security controls were not primarily responsible for the low levels of East-West trade.

The controls apply to a small percentage of the types of goods which made up East-West trade in the prewar years or in 1948.

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