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A BRAND-NEW DESK DICTIONARY FROM THE WORLD'S LEADING DICTIONARY-MAKEROriginally developed by Oxford University Press's Dictionary Department and edited by noted lexicographer Laurence Urdang, THE AMERICAN CENTURY DICTIONARY is a totally new dictionary created for American English. Its unique features -- the latest new words and acronyms, such as NIMBY, telecommute, and grunge-- thousands of colloquial and slang expressions, such as legit, yuck, and zilch-- up-to-date computer and technical terms, such as ASCII, e-mail, fax, and virtual reality, as well as new terms from medicine and business-- special easy-to-use organization -- all entries, including prefixes, abbreviations, foreign words, and biographical and geographical names, are arranged alphabetically in one section-- separate quick-reference countries, states, state capitals, area and ZIP codes, presidents, and more.
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The American Century Dictionary, Laurence Urdang
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- Released
- 1996
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- The American Century Dictionary
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Laurence Urdang
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 704
- ISBN10
- 0446601217
- ISBN13
- 9780446601214
- Series
- Rating
- 3 out of 5
- Description
- A BRAND-NEW DESK DICTIONARY FROM THE WORLD'S LEADING DICTIONARY-MAKEROriginally developed by Oxford University Press's Dictionary Department and edited by noted lexicographer Laurence Urdang, THE AMERICAN CENTURY DICTIONARY is a totally new dictionary created for American English. Its unique features -- the latest new words and acronyms, such as NIMBY, telecommute, and grunge-- thousands of colloquial and slang expressions, such as legit, yuck, and zilch-- up-to-date computer and technical terms, such as ASCII, e-mail, fax, and virtual reality, as well as new terms from medicine and business-- special easy-to-use organization -- all entries, including prefixes, abbreviations, foreign words, and biographical and geographical names, are arranged alphabetically in one section-- separate quick-reference countries, states, state capitals, area and ZIP codes, presidents, and more.