Harrap's Compact Dictionary/Dizionario. Italiano‐Inglese: English‐Italian

What is Italian, short, stocky, robust and black? Perhaps an espresso coffee, but this also describes the new Harrap's Compact bilingual Italian dictionary for intermediate users. Aimed primarily at the school and business sectors the Compact provides over 90,000 entries and over 120,000 translations.

Virtually all of the appropriate lexis for the intended level appears, from school dinners to mobile phones, from swots to majority shareholders, from management consultants to the green cross code, as well as the rude words and the verb tables. The Compact offers translations or explanations of terms such as rag week, bubblejet printer, parson's nose,...