Real Estate Term and Definitions
July 7, 2017
A good online dictionary of real estate terms from NAOIP the Commercial Real Estate Development Association.
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https://www.naiop.org/Education-and-Career/Industry-Terms-and-Definitions
Subject: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Harvey’s Hypertextual Finance Glossary
May 1, 2017
A glossary of more than 8,000 finance terms. The definitions are clear and concise. There are more than 18,000 hyperlinks between words in definitions and corresponding glossary entries. There is no true search functionality for this site. Once the user has selected a letter from the alphabetic listings, they can either scroll down and browse the list or use the “FIND” function within their web browser.
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OneLook Dictionaries
April 28, 2017
This is a marvelous site that lets you search for the definitions of words in more than 1060 different dictionaries. You can search all of the dictionaries at once or search them individually.
Open Access
Oxford English Dictionary (aka the OED)
April 28, 2017
More than just definitions. The OED is the world’s leading authority on the history and development of the English language. The OED allows users to find words that have come into English via a particular language. Search for quotation using a particular word from a specific year, author, or work. You can also and turn pronunciation, etymologies, variant spellings and quotation on and off.
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