Random House Webster's College Dictionary

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The value of a college dictionary is measured its coverage of current vocabulary from a wide range of subject areas. Below is a sampling of new words and terms, most of which you will find exclusively in Webster's College Dictionary, published by Random House:
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global warming ozone hole
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heptathlon Populuxe
hidden agenda program trading
high-density lipoprotein (HDL) quality time
hot-button seasonal affective disorder
house music secondhand smoke
infomercial ¦ Shining Path
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The value of a college dictionary is measured its coverage of current vocabulary from a wide range of subject areas. Below is a sampling of new words and terms, most of which you will find exclusively in Webster's College Dictionary, published by Random House:
advertorial aromatherapy assauh rifle biochip blood doping blush wine caller ID carbo-load ing Claytnation colorize
corporate raider . dancercise deep pockets dis
DNA fingerprinting dollarization down-and'dirty duct tape economy of scale fanny pack " B
WEBSTER'S SAYS DICTIONARY RANDOM HOUSE SAYS IT BEST
401(k) narcoterrorism
genomic DNA omega-3 fatty acid
global warming ozone hole
greenhouse gas Pac-Man defense
heptathlon Populuxe
hidden agenda program trading
high-density lipoprotein (HDL) quality time
hot-button seasonal affective disorder
house music secondhand smoke
infomercial ¦ Shining Path
intrapreneur Soweto
intifada supertitle
killer bee M support group
lambada techno-thriller
lemon law tin parachute
life-care triple witching hour
liposuction Tutu, Desmond
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metalhead __ West ßank
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Webster's College Dictionary from Random House is a state-of-the-art compilation of modern words and meanings. It is the first new college dictionary for the 1990s, a benchmark of innovative dictionary-making by the country's foremost commercial publishing house. A staff of professional lexicographers, drawing on decades of tradition and experience and using the latest in computer technology, have produced a dictionary of unsurpassed usefulness for home, school, and office.
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Because this dictionary is the only one developed from an up-to-date unabridged computerized database, it uniquely reflects the state of American English today. You will find in these pages hundreds of new words and meanings not found in any other college dictionary^—ranging from advertorial and biochip to ozone hole and wiggle room. Its parent volume, The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, Unabridged, was hailed by The Washington Post as "without doubt, today's unabridged dictionary of choice." No other unabridged dictionary of American English is as current or as complete. To create this new college edition, this modern unabridged dictionary was entered into a computerized network. The editors worked on-line on the database until the final text went to the printer, (continued on back flap)
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(continued from front flap) This union of technology and lexicography has produced a landmark record of American English in the 1990s.
WEBSTER'S SAYS DICTIONARY. RANDOM HOUSE SAYS IT BEST.
Webster's College Dictionary has been designed to be especially easy to use. Everything, including abbreviations and biographical and geographical entries, is in one alphabetical listing. The most common meanings of a word are defined first, where they can be quickly found by the reader. The introductory section. Using This Dictionary, has been written and laid out in a manner that invites the reader to browse and learn.
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