Collins COBUILD Student's Dictionary plus grammar

Collins COBUILD Student's Dictionary plus grammar by COBUILD staff. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780007744688.

From the publisherThe words explained in this dictionary account for over 90% of the language that is written and spoken. That is because there is a relatively small number of words which are used over and over again, while there is a larger number of words which are not used very frequently. For example, in this introduction, there are 743 words in total. Of these, the word `the occurs 61 times, while 169 words occur only once. In fact, there are only 275 different words in the whole of the introduction. In a much larger amount of text, the words that do not occur very frequently are much less important. That is why this dictionary concentrates on the words that occur over and over again, and why the entries represent the language that students really do need to know and to use.The entries provide a detailed account of the main uses and meanings of each word. Each of the forms is listed at the start of each entry, along with information about vari