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This revised edition offers a substantial and up-to-date wordlist, covering technical, specialist, modern, literary, and informal language in some 125,000 references. New words reflecting the change in our language include: Internet, carjack, cashback and Prozac. This book is fully indexed.

The perfect reference book for everyday use, it provides definitions written in clear, jargon-free language readily accessible to every level of reader.

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Collins Pocket Webster's Dictionary has been updated with the newest words that have entered the language and still caries all the words you need for everyday use—the perfect dictionary for school, work, or home use. Clear color layout for maximum ease of use Thousands of entries, including current phrases and constructions Pronunciations for every entry Meanings, derivates, and usage clearly indicated

A collection of articles on dictionaries for advanced second language learners includes essays on the past, present, and future of learners' dictionaries; alternative dictionaries; dictionary construction; and dictionaries and their users. Titles include: "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; or Vaticinations on the Learners' Dictionary" (Ladislav Zgusta); "Recent Developments in EFL Dictionaires" (Gabriele Stein); "Learners' Dictionaries--Recent Advances and Developments" (A.P. Cowie); "The Background and Nature of ELT Learners' Dictionaries" (Tom McArthur); "Dictionaries and Language Learning" (Paul Nation); "Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionaries: Fundamental Differences" (Tadeusz Piotrowski); "The Collocational Dictionary and the Advanced Learner" (Morton Benson); "Grammar in Dictionaries" (Thomas Herbst); "The Treatment of Pronunciation in Some Monolingual General Dictionaries Used by Learners of English" (W.R. Lee); "How Many Words Is a Picture Worth? A Review of Illustrations in Dictionaries" (Hilary Nesi); "Uncommonly Common Words" (John M. Sinclair); "A Vocabulary for Writing Dictionaries" (Gwyneth Fox); "Vocabulary, Culture, and the Dictionary" (Hilary Bool, Ronald Carter); "Which Dictionaries and Why? Exploring Some Options" (Makhan L. Tickoo); "How to Use a Dictionary?" (Soekemi); and What We (Don't) Know about the English Language Learner as a Dictionary User: A Critical Select Bibliography" (R.R.K. Hartmann). (MSE).

A comprehensive listing of over 121,000 references and more than 156,000 definitions, with extensive coverage of the English language of the 1980s.