Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English English-French
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The Oxford-Hachette French–English/English–French Dictionary is one of the most comprehensive and recent bilingual French–English/English–French dictionaries. It was the first such dictionary to be written using a computerized corpus and it contains 555,000 translations as well as 360,000 words and expressions. The work was first published in 1994, with its second, third and fourth editions appearing in 1997, 2001 and 2007 respectively. Though the dictionary is entirely bilingual, it is marketed under two different names, one for French, one for English:
  • Le grand dictionnaire Hachette-Oxford français-anglais et anglais-français
  • Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English English-French

It version is also available in a concise or condensed version. It is jointly published by Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...

 and Hachette Education
Hachette (publishing)
Hachette Livre, , is a French publisher, the flagship imprint of Lagardère Publishing. It was founded in 1826 by Louis Hachette as a bookshop and publishing company. Hachette has its headquarters in the 15th arrondissement of Paris....

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Its two main competitors are Harrap's Shorter French Dictionary
Harrap's Shorter French Dictionary
Harrap's Shorter French Dictionary, published by Chambers Harrap Publishers, is one of the best known English/French bilingual dictionaries in the United Kingdom and France. The eighth edition was published in April 2007...

 published by Chambers Harrap Publishers
Chambers Harrap
Chambers Harrap Publishers is a reference publisher formerly based in Edinburgh, Scotland, which held the property rights of the venerable W.R.Chambers Publishers and its competitor George G. Harrap and Company .-History of Chambers:Chambers was founded as "W. & R...

 and Collins-Robert French Dictionary
Collins-Robert French Dictionary
The Collins-Robert French Dictionary is a bilingual dictionary of English and French derived from the Collins Word Web, an analytical linguistics database...

published by Harper-Collins.
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