With over 74,000 entries, this revised dictionary is a beneficial reference book for students, translators and business people. Updated to accommodate the most recent changes in the language - including Americanisms, technical, medical, scientific and cultural terms - the dictionary also covers idiomatic expressions and indicates countable and uncountable nouns. Each section has appendices for proper names and geographical names, anacronyms and abbreviations, irregular verbs and proverbs.