Download or read book The Oxford American Desk Thesaurus written by Christine A. Lindberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This desk thesaurus contains more than 175, 000 synonyms, including thousands of compound terms and idiomatic expressions, all in a quick-finding A-Z format. Entries feature a breakdown by specific word sense, example phrases and sentences and a "writer's toolkit" for guidance in the basics.