The Macquarie Essential Australian Dictionary app is fast and easy to use, providing users with a compact and accessible reference for Australian English.

Based on the new Macquarie Essential Dictionary and equivalent to a 1000 page book retailing at A$29.99, the app includes:

• Over 74,000 definitions
• Over 41,000 headwords
• Over 8000 phrases
• Over 2700 colloquial words and phrases
• IPA pronunciations for all single word entries
• Idiomatic phrases listed at the end of entries

Search features include:

Simple and fast search
Fuzzy search for similar sounding words
Suggests search terms as you type
Access anytime without an internet connection
Cross-reference links
Browser-like definition content navigation

Based on the Macquarie Essential Dictionary, which is in its fifth edition, the app is completely up-to-date, with words from the cutting edge in such fields as:

• information technology (brain bank, breadcrumb trail, lifestreaming)
• science (activated carbon, biofuel, saviour sibling)
• health and medicine (blood doping, health tourism, lap band)
• leisure and fashion (ear gauging, flashpacker, fur child, pop-up shop)
• business (ecotax, footloose industry, freeconomics, global commons)
• social interest (baby brain, helicopter parenting, latte liberal)

This app is from the publishers of the popular, authoritative Macquarie Dictionary — Australia's national dictionary. The Macquarie Dictionary continues to change, adapt and re-adjust to reflect Australian language.

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