American Heritage Dictionary

Contains over seventy thousand entries including 1,000 new words and their meanings.

Discusses the nature, origins, and development of language and lists the meanings and associated word for more than thirteen thousand Indo-European root words.

"Specially designed to meet the needs of ESL students ... [covers] American English ..."--Back of dust jacket.

The American Heritage Dictionary of Business Terms covers the entire spectrum of business terminology. In clear language it defines over 6,000 terms drawn from the areas of investing, finance, marketing, law, real estate, management, economics, accounting, insurance, and international business. Entries range from investment fundamentals (price-earnings ratio, split, yield) to the lexicon of real estate (amortization, buy down, wraparound mortgage) to the terminology of contemporary finance (CDO, short sale, tranche). More than 100 key terms, such as antitrust, bailout, and subprime loan, are enhanced by real-world case studies that bring the concept to life. In addition, scores of tips from expert professionals offer advice on topics ranging from renegotiating a mortgage to reducing the estate tax.

This new edition offers newly updated terms, and provides the latest research on word origins and meanings, with guidelines on accurate usage.

An illustrated English language dictionary with over 350,000 entries.