DICTIONARY.

MACMILLAN Essential DICTIONARY

FOR LEARNERS OF ENGLISH

Macmillan Education Between Towns Road, Oxford OX4 3PP A division of Macmillan Publishers Limited MOAM Companies and representatives throughout the world

ISBN

0 333 99209 1 paperback edition

0 333 99210 5 paperback edition+ CD-ROM

1 405 01429 6 UK paperback edition.

1 405 01428 8 UK paperback edition + CD-ROM

Text Bloomsbury Publishing Ple 2003

Design and illustrations Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003

First published 2003

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This Dictionary includes words on the basis of their use in the English language today. Some words are identified as being trademarks or service marks. Neither the presence nor absence of such identification in this Dictionary is to be regarded as affecting in any way, or expressing a judgement on, the validity or legal status of any trademark, service mark. or other proprietary rights anywhere in the world.

World English Corpus

The definitions in the Macmillan Essential Dictionary have been based on information derived from 200,000,000 words of English which make up the World English Corpus. This consists of the Bloomsbury Corpus of World English with additional material exclusively developed for this Dictionary, including ELT materials and a corpus of common errors made by learners of English.

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