The Oxford Collocations Dictionary improves students' accuracy by showing them the words that work together in both British and American English. Using the dictionary develops a better awareness of which words go together and helps students sound more natural. The dictionary is an essential tool for students preparing for the Cambridge ESOL First Certificate or Proficiency Exam, IELTS, or studying other subjects in English which require writing in English e.g. reports for a science subject, economics. Students look up a word they know to find which words are used with it. Each entry is organized around a word and its collocates. The collocates are grouped by part of speech - i.e. verbs that collocate with the entry are listed together. Students can look up the meaning of any unfamiliar words on the CD-ROM. 25 Usage notes show students collocations shared by sets of words such as seasons, currencies, and languages.

• Based on the Oxford English Corpus, a 2-billion word corpus that provides authoritative information on the most typical collocations.
• Collocations only found in British or American English are clearly labelled.
• Examples, using British and American English, show how collocations work in context.
• Headwords printed in blue help you find the right word faster.
• CD-ROM with the complete dictionary, a searchable index that makes it easy to find the collocation you are looking for, and practice exercises.
• CD-ROM has pop-up definitions of every word included in the dictionary, with spoken pronunciation of British and American English.
• Collocations grouped according to part of speech and meaning.
• Usage notes show collocations shared by sets of words such as languages and seasons.
• 16-page Study section.