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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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
For Merriam and its competitors, the trick—and key to survival—will be finding the balance between the rigid lexicographic rules of yore and the chaos of the Web.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2015
In the above list are not included a number of medical, astrological, calendarial and philological or lexicographic works, mostly written during or since the Cilician or crusading epoch.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
