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Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series, Vol. 3

Publisher Oxford University Press
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ISBN / ASIN0198600275
ISBN-139780198600275
Sales Rank1,987,083
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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This is the third in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Volume 3 contains 3,000 new words and meanings from around the English-speaking world, including the UK (Citizen's Charter), North America (affluential, Clintonomics), Australia (beardie), and the West Indies (zouk).
A wide variety of subjects is covered, including the sciences (buckyball, nanotechnology, Tourette syndrome), finance (junk bond, negative equity), literary theory (metafiction), computing (freeware, core dump), and sport (basho, lowball).