Paperback Oxford English Dictionary by Oxford University Press

Title	:	Paperback Oxford English Dictionary
Author	:	Oxford University Press
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ISBN	:	0199640947
ISBN-10	:	9780199640942
Language	:	English
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	1056
Publication	:	First published May 1, 2012

This fully updated edition offers over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions. It covers all the words you need for everyday use, carefully selected from the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, a databank of 21st century English, containing over 2 billion words.The Factfinder centre
section gives quick-reference entries on topics including famous people, countries, and science.

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