COBUILD offers a revolutionary approach to understanding, learning and teaching today's English. This Pocket Dictionary retains all the best features of the prize-winning Cobuild dictionaries and will give learners of English from intermediate level upwards the help they need to speak and write English more effectively.

• Based on the best-selling COBUILD Student's Dictionary

• Focuses on the common words of English, which students need in order to communicate

• All words are explained simply and in full sentences

• 30,000 examples which show how words and phrases are used in the English of the 1990s

• Clear text layout, with no codes or symbols