title: Oxford American College Dictionary
author: Oxford University Press
description: Listen up, students. This new reference, based on the New Oxford American Dictionary, released in October 2001, offers more than 175,000 entries plus neat features like country guides, boxed quotes, and a new way of organizing definitions.<BR>Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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