square foot

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square foot (plural square feet)

A unit of area, regardless of its shape, equal to the area of a square whose sides are one foot long.
- 2002, Huang Chin-shing, Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Wu Ho-Su‎^[1], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 110:
  In 1973, we built a new factory in Tahsi in Taoyuan County, which occupied an area of 600,000 square feet.
- 2023 March 22, Christy Choi, “Hong Kong’s New Kids on the Block”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-22, Art & Design‎^[3]:
  At No. 3 Staunton Street in the city’s SoHo district, the roughly 1,300 square-foot ground floor was once used as a parking space for a Ferrari.

unit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side