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I took a couple of minutes to look up some random words in the new English dictionary and compare the definitions with the dictionaries I use regularly. While I don't have a current printing of the Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) on hand, I do have the older New Oxford English Dictionary (NOED) and the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (SOED), as well as several others, the OED among them.
Based on my limited comparison tests, this looks to be an unabridged and up-to-date ODE, of which the NOED was a direct antecedent, as I've found many duplicate definitions and formatting. This is a substantial improvement over what was available previously, and ought to be better than the version on the Kindle, if reports on Kindle's dictionary abridgement are to be believed.
When compared with more robust tomes like the SOED or Webster's 3rd, this dictionary often lacks nuanced definitions, connotations, phrases, and/or literary examples, but redeems itself by having clearer, more concise and even more precise definitions overall. I don't believe many users will look further than this dictionary, especially if they're not prone to flipping through multiple pages of definitions.
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