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This South Asian edition of the Pocket Oxford English Dictionary is for those who wish to be adept at English language. It serves as a portable dictionary that one can carry with them, just about anywhere. Summary of the Book This comprehensive dictionary provides more than 120,000 words, idioms and phrases, and definitions. It covers all the words one needs for everyday use, meticulously edited from the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, a databank of 21st century English, encompassing more than 2 billion words. About Oxford University Press Oxford University Press is a renowned publishing house that develops and publishes high quality textbooks, scholarly works, and academic books for school courses, bilingual dictionaries and also digital materials for both learning and teaching. It is a division of the University of Oxford. The first book was locally published in the year 1912. Some of the books published under their banner are India’s Ancient Past, Atkins’ Physical Chemistry, Companion to Politics in India, Sociology: Themes and Perspectives, and Common Mistakes at IELTS Advanced …and How to Avoid Them.