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Compact, reliable, and packed with 150,000 synonyms, the Little Oxford Thesaurus is the perfect companion to the Little Oxford Dictionary. All the words you want are at your fingertips on one fully cross-referenced A-Z sequence. Example phrases clarify less obvious senses, and there is information on related synonyms and opposites. Ideal for writing letters, reports, and essays, for crosswords, and simply to increase your word power, this is the most comprehensive thesaurus of its size.For anyone who has ever had to work out of a suitcase on a business trip or with a laptop computer on a plane (or simply finds herself working on the run), reference books pose a problem--a bulky and inconvenient necessity. Now Oxford comes to the rescue with The Little Oxford Thesaurus, the perfect companion to The Little Oxford Dictionary. Here Oxford's renowned lexicographers have taken a new look at the thesaurus, redesigning the entries and the format to pack all the key information of a larger book into a compact reference. The result is a remarkably complete--and convenient--portable synonym finder:BL More than 150,000 synonymsBL A convenient A to Z formatBL Numerous example phrases to clarify meaningBL Extensive cross-referencingBL Includes numerous antonymsBL Specially designed page layout for quick, easy referenceNo matter where you find yourself in search of a word--on the train, in a hotel, or even in your own office--The Little Oxford Thesaurus will always be at hand, providing instant access to an immense vocabulary. Concise, convenient, and authoritative, it allows you to keep the English language right in your own pocket.