The Oxford Dictionary of Current English is the most comprehensive paperback
dictionary of its kind, providing full and up-to-date coverage of English as it
is used today around the world.
The Dictionary offers over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions, and uses a
straightforward writing style that avoids technical language, ensuring that
definitions are even clearer than before. This edition includes over two hundred
new definitions, words from technology, current events, or popular culture that
have only recently become part of our mainstream language, such as "A-list,"
"domain name," and "WMD." It uses thousands of examples to illustrate idiomatic
usage, showing how words and phrases are used in everyday