With over 400,000 words and phrases, the Unabridged has the broadest coverage of any general bilingual available:

• more new words: the most up-to-date words from all fields, collected as part of our French and English new word monitoring programme
• more idiomatic coverage: always Harrap's strength, we give more coverage of idioms and colloquial language, including slang, than any other dictionary
• more examples: tens of thousands of examples help to put words and senses in context and help to tease out idiomatic translations
• more technical terms: from business to sport, biochemistry to botany, and from IT to ornithology
• more international coverage: unrivalled coverage of Canadian, Swiss and Belgian French, and American, Australian, Scottish and Irish English
• more literary language: we include literary and archaic words than any other bilingual dictionary
• more informative features:
  • hundreds of boxes on cultural information have been included within the text to give essential background and encyclopedic information
  • a unique bilingual chronology places the important events of the French and English-speaking worlds side by side along a timeline
  • unique boxes on allusions have been included within the text, explaining the origin and usage of phrases (e.g. quotations, advertising slogans etc.) that have entered the French and English languages
  • unique inclusion of hundreds of names of works of art, books, plays, films, etc., in the text with their, often unexpected and quite different, translations
  • unique comparative charts of military ranks explain this terminologically difficult area
  • unique communication guide on how to write letters and emails