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Macquarie Essential Dictionary

The Macquarie Essential Australian Dictionary app is fast and easy to use, providing users with a compact and ...

$ 4.66

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The Macquarie Essential Australian Dictionary app is fast and easy to use,
providing users with a compact and accessible reference for Australian
English.

Based on the new Macquarie Essential Dictionary and equivalent to a 1000 page
book retailing at A$29.99, the app includes:

Over 74,000 definitions

Over 41,000 headwords

Over 8000 phrases

Over 2700 colloquial words and phrases

IPA pronunciations for all single word entries

Idiomatic phrases listed at the end of entries

Search features include:

Simple and fast search

Fuzzy search for similar sounding words

Suggests search terms as you type

Access anytime without an internet connection

Cross-reference links

Browser-like definition content navigation

Based on the Macquarie Essential Dictionary, which is in its fifth edition,
the app is completely up-to-date, with words from the cutting edge in such
fields as:

• information technology (brain bank, breadcrumb trail, lifestreaming)

• science (activated carbon, biofuel, saviour sibling)

• health and medicine (blood doping, health tourism, lap band)

• leisure and fashion (ear gauging, flashpacker, fur child, pop-up shop)

• business (ecotax, footloose industry, freeconomics, global commons)

• social interest (baby brain, helicopter parenting, latte liberal)

This app is from the publishers of the popular, authoritative Macquarie
Dictionary Australia's national dictionary. The Macquarie Dictionary
continues to change, adapt and re-adjust to reflect Australian language.

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Store rating

3

out of

2 reviews

Last update

Feb. 15, 2013

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