Designed expressly for speakers & writers in the Americas, featuring the full range of American English & Latin-American Spanish. It's the perfect resource for everyone who uses, studies, or simply enjoys learning more about these two important languages. Contains over 80,000 entries & 120,000 words & phrases. More than 2,500 contemporary words & phrases have been added from the fields of medicine, sports, ecology, & the culture of the Americas, with a special emphasis on computer technology & the language of the Internet. Thumb-indexed. Reference Book Type: Dictionary.