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Macquarie
Dictionary

Macquarie
Dictionary
Online

The Macquarie Dictionary Online is the most up-to-date Australian dictionary available. The Macquarie Dictionary Online gives you access to the Macquarie Dictionary Fourth Edition (published in print in 2005).

Advantages of subscribing to the Macquarie Dictionary Online:

1. easy, comprehensive and interactive searching
2. annual updates — for 2006 words such as aromatase, cardioprotective, administrivia, flatback turtle, booty call, ubersexual, khat, ransomware, molecular mixology, technofix, volunteerism, ulema, and many more
3. updated encyclopedic information
4. extra features including Drag & Drop, Add-a-World and Dictionary Wit

Contents

The dictionary features the following:

• over 112,000 headwords covering English as it is used in Australia.
• etymologies for some of the more interesting phrases in English. Where does `save someone's bacon' come from? And what about 'on the wallaby'?
• thousands of new words and senses. Words are constantly coming into use in Australian English, from many different sources.
• illustrative material from Ozcorp, Macquarie's database of Australian writing, which continues to be increased and updated.
• regionalisms from around Australia, many gathered from Australian Word Map, a joint online project of Macquarie and ABC Online, which has called on the help of Australians all over the country to identify regionalisms from their area.