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Collins is a major publisher of Educational, Language and Geographic content, and have been publishing innovative, inspiring and informative books for over 200 years.
Collins online dictionary and reference resources draw on the wealth of reliable and authoritative information about language, thanks to the extensive use of our corpora - vast databases of language - both in English and in other languages. These databases allow experienced Collins lexicographers to analyse how language is really used, and monitor how language changes around the world. With the benefit of these corpora, our language specialists can be sure that they reflect accurate and authentic language throughout Collins dictionary and reference titles.
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Our original pioneering values remain at the core of our current publishing programme, both in print and in digital form. By ensuring our monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, as well as our reference titles reflect language as it is used today, Collins remains the favourite choice among students, teachers and translators.
