Now featuring a helpful, improved layout, even clearer, more striaghtforward definitions, revised, easy-to-understand labeling, and increased coverage of irregular, variant, and American spellings, this new edition of Oxford's littlest dictionary also offers improved coverage of business, technical, and educational terms and abbreviations. 40,000 entries. Always a very useful and easily accessible dictionary, this fourth edition of The Oxford English Minidictionary is now even more helpful, with an improved layout, even clearer, more straightfoward definitions, revised easy-to-understand labelling, and increased coverage of irregular, variant, and American spellings. Including 40,000 entries and 45,000 definitions, The Oxford English Minidictionary offers improved coverage in the areas of science, technology, business, and education vocabulary, as well as increased coverage of abbreviations. A major new edition of a best-selling dictionary, this comprehesive reference tool is ideal for school, the office, or the home.