This Macquarie Concise Dictionary Seventh Edition
provides an up-to-date reference of Australian English, with wide
coverage to meet the needs of the general dictionary user. Based on the comprehensive Macquarie Dictionary Seventh Edition,
this volume includes words and meanings which are particular to our variety
of English, as well as those common to the whole English-speaking world, with
evidence sourced from corpus data.

The
Macquarie Concise Dictionary includes:

* hundreds of new words and
definitions such as Bechdel test,
fat-shame, freecycle, lane filtering, robopoll

* words relating to technology, the internet and social media, such as big data, cyberwarrior, digital tattoo,
domotics, dox, listicle, live-tweet, smart buoy

* words and phrases from regional Australia, such as early minute, four-pointer, mufti day,
Stobie pole

* illustrative phrases which clearly show how a word is used in context

* valuable usage
notes

* etymologies (word origins)

Each copy also includes a free six-month
subscription to the Macquarie Dictionary Online (www.macquariedictionary.com.au) – Australia’s National Dictionary.