num_pages: 1104
description: This is a revised and updated edition of a popular and best-selling dictionary. It is the most authoritative comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of its kind one specially designed to be quickly and easily used in everyday life.Offering over 65000 concise and readable entries The Oxford Dictionary of Current English gives over 75000 definitions and provides usage notes that reflect the very latest patterns in the way English is both written and spoken. Including new words such as ageism  crop circle  ecu  karaoke and peace dividend  it also provides spelling help for irregular forms many example sentences and unabbreviated easy-to-follow etymologies. This revised edition also lists compound words as main headwords includes a fascinating new words survey and clearly divides word senses making it moreaccessible than ever.For business people writers students and anyone who wants to use English correctly and effectively The Oxford Dictionary of Current English is an indispensable reference tool.
language: English
title: The Oxford Dictionary of Current English
publisher: Oxford University Press