Publishing Manager
Laurence Delacroix

Managing Editors
Chris Fox
Rosalind Combley

Editors
Karen Cleveland Marwick
Lucy Hollingworth
Elizabeth Manning
Michael Murphy
Laura Wedgeworth

Pronunciation Editor
Dinah Jackson
Proofreaders
Pat Dunn
Margaret Hill
Ruth Hillmore
Kate Mohideen
Alison Sadler
Nicky Thompson

Project Management
Alan Savill
Alice Willoughby

Computational Linguist
Allan Orsnes

Academic Word List
Averil Coxhead

Language Supplement
Chris Fox
Maria Karyda

Production Editors
Hilary Marsden
Michael Murphy
Paola Rocchetti
Alice Willoughby

Production
Susan Braund
Neil Wooding
Adrian Straiton
Kenneth Volcjak

Design
Eddi Edwards
Matthew Dickin
Johnson Banks

Mobile Development
Pearson English Chennai

Mobile Design & UX
Nina Reeves
Pedro Suspiro

Keyboarder
Denise McKeough
Picture Research
Sandra Hilsdon
Louise Edgeworth

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 (sixth edition) and the many people who have contributed advice to the making of this dictionary for the last 35 years, 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 Schmitt 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:

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, Matgorzata Chomicz, Ewa Czwarno, Heather Daniell, Elin Davies, Kasia Downer, Magdalena Dworakowska, Krystyna Dybowska-Gtab, AliReza Z. Ekbatani, Kate Evans, Alicja Fratczak, Emma Meade Flynn, Helen Galer, John Gallagher, Moriana Gamboa, Thorkild Gantner, Olga Gawet, 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 Kazmierczak, Tah Eun Kim, Krystyna Krzeminska, 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 Skoczen, Mark Smith, Katarzyna Socha, Joanna Stansfield, Anna Stepien, 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 correct.