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east–westadjective1Extending between the east and the west: freight leaving the port travels on an east-west axis [as adverb]: there are several major rivers running east-west...- Round bales in east–west rows often have drifts on the south side.
- Any journey east–west involves mountain passes, some up to 4000m high.
- It has been a major east–west city route for almost two centuries.
1.1 (also East–West) Relating to the relationship between the eastern and western parts of the world or of a country, region, or town: East-West economic ties...- I think the East–West rivalry is past its sell-by date.
- Scotland is a country of immense regional diversity, with the vast urban metropolis in central Scotland and its east–west rivalries in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- Together such passages point toward a different model of East–West relations, where it does not really make sense to think of the two sides as partners in the creation of modernism.
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