lexicography
noun
the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
lexicographic
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a word derived from
lexicography.
Example Sentences
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The comprehensiveness of her collection amazed many in the lexicographic world.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
Webster’s Third represented only the death of lexicographic gatekeeping.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2018
In 1982 a new boss shocked the then-editor with a plan to computerise the dictionary’s ways: both the lexicographic work itself, with digital research files, and its outcome, an OED on compact disc.
From Economist ● Oct. 27, 2016
More is at stake here than mere lexicographic correctness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2015
This integral utility index likely would be lexicographic, in that some moral and constitutional issues might dominate pragmatic results in the commodity domain.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Thomas Colignatus
