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Combining a concise, up-to-date dictionary of everyday English and comprehensive coverage of business and computing terms, the Oxford Dictionary for the Business World is a unique one-stop reference for all business professionals. In addition to a 65,000 entry dictionary covering questions of everyday spelling, meaning, pronunciation, and usage, the ODBW includes 8,000 special entries on key business terms and abbreviations. The dictionary contains information on the world's countries and major cities, including economic profiles, and there is also a 48-page section containing essential travel information, world statistics, and tips on compiling business presentations, charts, and graphs.
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Booklist Review
This wonderful new addition to the world of business dictionaries has somewhat of a British slant but will prove valuable to libraries, students, and the general public, as well as the business community. Emphasizing business and computing terms, it includes many words in general use, including slang and colloquialisms, and new words entering the language such as fatwa and wannabe. Besides providing meaning, pronunciation, and correct usage for words, special entries for countries of the world include currency, exchange rate, inflation, GDP or GNP, official languages, current political leaders, and population. Both formal business terms (e.g., terminal market, par value) and informal (e.g., Lady Macbeth strategy, shark watcher) are covered, plus such abbreviations as NAFTA and CAT. Some common American terms are found only under British equivalents: checking account is defined under cheque account with no cross-reference, and IRA is the Irish Republican Army, with no mention of Individual Retirement Accounts. In addition, profiles of selected business people recently in the news, like Rupert Murdoch and Estee Lauder, are included, but again with an emphasis on the British. Eight appendixes complete the volume; again, some will prove valuable to American users while some, such as Royal Mail Services, will be useful only to those doing business in the UK. This inexpensive, up-to-date dictionary will be an asset to any library that purchases it, even with its British slant. (Reviewed July 1994)
Choice Review
This atypical English-language dictionary has many excellent definitions and some hard-to-find abbreviations in business and finance, computing, and other economic fields. However, this reviewer believes that words found in general English dictionaries should not be integrated with the jargon of special fields such as business and economics. Therefore, the compilers could have dropped "sexual intercourse" and included "Total Quality Management" (TQM). Other adds and drops are too numerous to point out. Special features include appendixes on preparing a business plan, English language usage, world time zones, etc. The graphics are good; country listings are enhanced by boxed diagrams showing gross domestic product and inflation. This is a unique dictionary with a British slant recommended for universities and public libraries with large business collections. L. Page; California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Library Journal Review
This new volume aims to give business people a quick source for checking the spelling, meaning, pronunciation, and correct usage of approximately 50,000 terms. Though it claims to offer comprehensive treatment of business, finance, computing, and geographic terms with the added benefit of defining abbreviations, there isn't enough computer terminology to justify the claim and there aren't enough business terms to compete with better and less expensive business dictionaries. The geographic coverage is wildly uneven and very poorly focused. Does the business world need a definition of the missionary position? Or a haystack or a kookaburra? This might be an adequate general dictionary for a Commonwealth country, but it is definitely not recommended as a business dictionary.-Patrick J. Brunet, Western Wisconsin Tech. Coll. Lib., La Crosse (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.