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Business French Dictionary, Peter Collin Publishing
• Provides a specialist business vocabulary for translators, business people, secretaries, and students.
• Provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of business: insurance, stock exchange, accounting, finance, and computing.
• Includes example sentences showing how each word is used.
• Includes quotations from magazines and newspapers to show how words are used in context.
• Covers not only usage current in Britain, the USA, France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada, but also includes words and expressions from other English or French speaking countries.

Business German Dictionary, Peter Collin Publishing
The Business German Dictionary gives the user the essential business vocabulary of German and English, with translations into the other language. The entries cover the main areas of day-to-day business usage, including office practice, sales and purchases, shops, banking, invoices, credit control, international trade and communications and business travel. These are the situations in which the user may frequently require to translate from one language to the other. In addition, terms used in marketing and distribution, accounting, personnel management, computing, personnel and company finance and the stock exchange are also included.

Business Spanish Dictionary, Peter Collin Publishing
• Spanish-English / English-Spanish
• Provides a specialist business vocabulary for translators, business people, secretaries, and students.
• Includes over 50,000 entries providing comprehensive coverage of all aspects of general business, such as invoicing, insurance, and computing.
• Includes example sentences showing how each word is used.
• Includes quotations from magazines and newspapers to show how words are used in context.

Collins French Dictionary
The most up-to-date and easy-to-use French dictionary and grammar available, the Collins French Dictionary takes advantage of the Banque de français and the Bank of English, electronic databases containing over 400 million words of current French and English.
• Special entries on French life and culture
• Extensive coverage of business and computing terms
• Numerous examples of grammatical constructions and idiomatic usage

Collins German Dictionary
This new edition of the Collins German Dictionary - first published in 1980 to great critical acclaim - provides accurate and reliable coverage of contemporary vocabulary and usage and is the most up-to-date and authoritative single-volume dictionary available today.
• Emphasis firmly placed on current German and English, both written and spoken
• Exhaustive treatment of the basic vocabulary of each language, with numerous examples illustrating contemporary usage, including idioms and set phrases

Collins Italian Dictionary
Collins Italian Dictionary is the most up-to-date and easy-to-use single-volume Italian dictionary available today. The attractive layout leads the user quickly and easily to the word they want, while the clear differentiation of meanings and senses helps them choose the most appropriate translation.
• Emphasis firmly placed on current Italian and English, both written and spoken
• Over 160,000 references and 230,000 translations, from about face to Zimmer frame and abbagliante to zuccone
• Sets a new standard in Italian-English dictionaries

Collins Latin Dictionary
A comprehensive Latin-English dictionary, containing translations of over 60,000 words and phrases, the Collins Latin Dictionary is an ideal companion for anyone studying Classical or Mediaeval Latin. The dictionary provides a comprehensive treatment of the vocabulary of texts read in school and university. See, for example, produco, verso and rumor.

Collins Portuguese Dictionary
The Collins Portuguese Dictionary has been expanded and updated to provide increased contemporary coverage of both Brazilian and Peninsular Portuguese. Over 80,000 references and 110,000 translations, including business and computing terms, ensure wide-reading, practical coverage of Portuguese and English.
Entries are clearly laid out in a "user-friendly" topography. Meaning and style levels are signposted permitting fast and easy selection of the most appropriate translation. The emphasis of this dictionary is contemporary usage of Portuguese and the book includes thousands of constructions and idioms and vocabulary to help the reader understand newspapers, magazines and literature in Brazilian and Peninsular Portuguese.

Collins Spanish Dictionary
This major new edition of the Collins Spanish Dictionary provides accurate and reliable coverage of contemporary vocabulary and usage and is the most up-to-date and authoritative single-volume dictionary available today. Its modernity and accuracy, together with its innovative, clear presentation, reaffirm this book as the best Spanish dictionary on the market.
• Emphasis firmly placed on current Spanish and English, both written and spoken.
• In-depth treatment of complex function words such as do, get, llegar, poner.
• Linguistic notes to give detailed help with the complexities of Spanish.

Dictionary of Spanish Law, Peter Collin Publishing
Provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of British, American and Spanish law. Covers subjects including criminal, civil, commercial and international law. Comments are also included in both languages to clarify entries that relate to specific legal terms, institutions and organizations of a country where either English or Spanish is spoken and which have no equivalent in the other language.
• Provides a specialist law vocabulary for translators, lawyers, business people and students.
• Includes example sentences showing how each word is used.
• Includes comments on the British, American and Spanish judicial systems.


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