Dictionary provides meaning for everyday phrases as well as a guide to their level of politeness. Phrases are listed as they are spoken for ease and speed of usage. Explains what people mean when they don't say what they mean.

Featuring over 16,000 abbreviation entries, the Comprehensive Glossary of Telecom Abbreviations and Acronyms covers various fields including telecommunications, satellite communications, remote sensing, marine communications, radar and military communications, cellular networks, specialized mobile radio, avionics, electronics, radio and television broadcasting, information and communications technology, fiber optics communications and much more. This reference also includes abbreviations used in standardization organizations (such as ITU, ISO, IEEE, and ETSI) as well as abbreviations of new technologies. For each entry, all possible relevant phrases which stand for that entry are provided and the related branches of science are specified.

Ten years have elapsed since the first edition of this Dictionary. The vocabulary of economics in the broadest sense has considerably grown. Many neologisms have sprung from continued changes in national economies, not least the innovations in financial markets and growing concerns about the environment. Institutional changes, for example, the coming of the World Trade Organisation, and new interests in economic thought, not least through the further awards of Nobel Prizes for Economics, have inspired new entries. Inevitably some terms in the first edition have not been as durable as others and recommended reading needed revision. Extensive reading of economics journals and monographs, as well as newspapers, has produced over a thousand new entries. The organisation of the Dictionary has also been changed. The newer version of the subject classification employed by the Journal of Economic Literature and The Economic Journal has been applied to previous and new entries.