Acknowledgements

Editorial Director
Michael Mayor

Managing Editors
Chris Fox
Rosalind Combley

Editors
Evadne Adrian-Vallance
Karen Cleveland Marwick
Sheila Dignen
Stephen Handorf
Lucy Hollingworth
Elizabeth Manning
Michael Murphy
Dr Martin Stark
Laura Wedgeworth

Pronunciation Editor
Dinah Jackson

Proofreaders
Joaquin Blasco
Lynda Carey
Pat Dunn
Isabel Griffiths
Ruth Hillmore
Ruth Noble
Alison Sadler

Project Management
Alan Savill

Corpus and DVD-ROM Development
Steve Crowdy
Trevor Satchell
Andy Roberts

Computational Linguist and DVD-ROM Project Management
Allan Ørsnes

Language Notes
Chris Fox

Academic Word List
Averil Coxhead

Editorial Manager
Paola Rocchetti

Production Editors
Željka Letica Finnerty
Debora Ferrari Haines

Technical Support Manager
Trevor Satchell

Production
David Gilmour
Keeley Everitt

Design
Eddi Edwards
Matthew Dickin
Johnson Banks

Project and Databases Administrator
Denise McKeough

Network Administrator
Robert Stringer

Keyboarder
Susan Jones

DVD-ROM Development
Software developed by IDM, Paris

Picture Research
Sandra Hilsdon
Jack Holgarth

Illustrations
Ben Hasler (NB Illustration)
Maltings Partnership
Chris Pavely
Peter Richardson
Mark Turner (Beehive Illustration)

The Publishers and editorial team would like to thank the lexicographic team who worked on the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (fourth edition) and the many people who have contributed advice to the making of this latest edition, in particular the Linglex Dictionary and Corpus Advisory Committee:
Lord Quirk (Chair), Professor David Crystal, Professor Geoffrey Leech, Professor John Wells, Della Summers

The Publishers would also like to thank Professor Norbert Schmidt for his guidance during the development of the Longman Vocabulary Trainer.

The Publishers and editors of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English would like to thank all of the teachers who took part in the research for the current edition:
Monika Adamowicz, Julia Adkins, Niki Alford, Shanel Ali, Melinda Allen, Marcin Banasiak, Jamie Barnett, Fiona Bennet, Robert Bundala, Nick Canning, Shelley Carter, Marc Challans, Jaetloon Choi, Małgorzata Chomicz, Ewa Czwarno, Heather Daniell, Elin Davies, Kasia Downer, Magdalena Dworakowska, Krystyna Dybowska-Głąb, AliReza Z. Ekbatani, Kate Evans, Alicja Frątczak, Emma Meade Flynn, Helen Galer, John Gallagher, Moriana Gamboa, Thorkild Gantner, Olga Gaweł, Marianna Goral, Laila Grinberga, Harriett Han, Kathleen Hargreaves, Claire Harrison, Vanessa Harrison, Tess Hicks, Maria Hinc, Susan Holzman, Kim Hyon-hwa, Christian Ricardo Ingracio, Dorota Jaborska-Adaszewska, Jackie Jays, Rob Julian, Maimu Kado, Kaori Kaneko, Anna Kaźmierczak, Tah Eun Kim, Krystyna Krzemińska, Mick Lammond, Pip Langley, Jerzy Laskus, Du Le Khanh, Bernadette Lingani, Sara L Marlow, Kristina Maulina, Eve McEllinney, Tim McLeish, Vicky McWilliam, Steven Miller, Anne Morris, Antonio Mulima, Tom Neath, Jolanta Nyczke, Joanna Odgers, Cheriere Ophelie, Daniel Orina, Sarah Perkins, Stephen Perry, Michel Pierre, Frank Pinner, Davina Pobee, Martin Porter, Martin Poster, Tom Pritchard, Leena Punga, Jonathan Richardson, Sally Robinson, Monika Sadowska, Katarzyna Scibor, Jane Sherlock, Misako Shimoji, Elizabeth Singleton, Tomasz Siuta, Ewa Skoczeń, Mark Smith, Katarzyna Socha, Joanna Stansfield, Anna Stępień, Simon Thomas, Luke Thompson, Alison Tiernety, Ali Tierney, Philippa Titley, Olzhas Tolubayev, Maria Tsangaras, Emina Tuzovic, Rolf Tynan, Alison Waite, Ewa Wirth, Arkadiusz Witecki, Cathy Yarrow, Gizem Yilmazyurt, Ewa Zalewska, Yu Zhant, Ewa Zielinska

Every effort has been made to include the names of all the teachers who took part in the research. If your name has been inadvertently omitted please contact us and we will be happy to insert it in a future reprint.