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This dictionary is a major contribution to English
lexicography.
Times Educational Supplement
Further opinions of the Dictionary will be found on the
back flap of the wrapper.

This new and expanded edition of Collins English
Dictionary is the most comprehensive, the most
up-to-date, and the most informative single-volume
dictionary of the English language currently available.
Among its many outstanding features are these:
• Systematic surveys of over 200 fields of knowledge
by expert consultants and specialist editors ensure
an extensive and... Tovább

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This dictionary is a major contribution to English
lexicography.
Times Educational Supplement
Further opinions of the Dictionary will be found on the
back flap of the wrapper.

This new and expanded edition of Collins English
Dictionary is the most comprehensive, the most
up-to-date, and the most informative single-volume
dictionary of the English language currently available.
Among its many outstanding features are these:
• Systematic surveys of over 200 fields of knowledge
by expert consultants and specialist editors ensure
an extensive and balanced treatment of today's
language.
• Special attention has been given in this new edition
to rapidly changing fields like electronics, information
technology, computers, physics, life sciences,
and aerospace.
9 The single A-to-Z listing ensures that compound
words,- derivatives that have a meaning of their own,
abbreviations and foreign words are all readily found
as main entries.
• Full, rounded definitions are written in
straightforward language free from dictionary jargon,
abbreviations, and complicated typographical
symbols.
• The most important current meanings come first,
followed by technical, rarer, and obsolete meanings.
• The provision of international encyclopedic material
- biographies of famous people and accounts of
important cities, regions, and countries - that was
so welcomed in the first edition has been reassessed
and expanded.
• The outstanding coverage of science and technology
that distinguished the first edition has been
strengthened, with special emphasis on the sciences
and technologies of modern living.
• Full, precise pronunciations are provided in
a transcription specially adapted from the
International Phonetic Alphabet.
Etymologies are given without cryptic abbreviations
and are both readable and informative, noting,
for example, the date of the first known use in
English of imported words.
• Usage notes provide guidance, where necessary,
on difficult points of grammar, syntax, or idiom.
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