Longman Business English Dictionary (new edition)

Suffering from dictionary reviewing fatigue, I tried to pass on the task of reviewing this Longman Business English Dictionary to another, but failed: “Anything except dictionaries!” was the anguished cry. But if I was expecting yet another pot pourri of exotic typefaces, a potage of cryptic esoterica, prolixity of pop‐up boxes, or clutter of appendices listing US states, measurement tables and national capitals, with multi‐coloured pages of student exercises, I was wrong. Not completely wrong, but wrong enough to thoroughly enjoy reviewing this offering from Pearson‐Longman. In the crowded dictionary market, Director Della Summers and her team of editors, managers,...