Shorter Oxford English Dictionary

by R.S. McGregor · 2002

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An updated edition of the reference work for modern English. The text is based on the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and manages more than one third of the coverage of the OED in one tenth of the size. It contains more than half a million definitions and illustrative quotations.

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