A learner’s thesaurus of over 15,000 words and expressions from written and spoken British and American English with CD-ROM. The learner’s thesaurus helps students distinguish between similar words and use them correctly.

English level:
Upper-Intermediate to Advanced
A S Hornby
Editor, Seventh Edition: Sally Wehmeier
Description
This is the world's bestselling advanced learner's dictionary, recommended by learners of English and their teachers, and used by 30 million people.
NEW 32-page Oxford 3000™ Vocabulary Trainer, only available with the Paperback and CD-ROM edition.

Key features
183,500 British and American words, phrases, and meanings, plus 85,000 examples showing how words are used.
20,000 word origins explained on the COMPASS CD-ROM
Over 200,000 extra example sentences on the COMPASS CD-ROM.
2,000 new words and meanings from British and American English, such as offshoring, life coach, sex up, wi-fi.

Publisher: OUP, 2009
File size: 389 MB
File type: ISO
The dictionary that helps students write and speak natural-sounding English, now in a new edition with CD-ROM.

Which words usually go together? This dictionary shows you the common word combinations (collocations) that are essential for natural-sounding British and American English. Completely revised and extended, the new edition has over 250,000 collocations and over 75,000 examples.

A dictionary designed for learners who need to understand, speak, read and write English for business.Key featuresVocabulary from the main areas of business, including: accounting,banking, computing, finance, import and export, international trade,law, management, sales, shipping and the stock exchange. Clear explanations of over 4,000 business words and phrases that are easy to understand but contain enough detail to make them useful for both students of business and experienced business people. Speciallydesigned for quick and easy access. On the left-hand side of every page there are definitions and examples of words or phrases; on the right there is a separate language information column containing abbreviations, pronunciation, collocations (words commonly used with the headword), American variants, and notes on grammar and usage. Over5,000 authentic examples, invaluable in helping learners with the English needed in real business situations. Many are based on the British National Corpus.Comprehensive cross-reference system leading learners to information about related words and helping with vocabulary building.