TheMacquarie Budget Dictionaryis based on the complete Macquarie Dictionary, now in its seventh edition. It is an up-to-date portable dictionary with all the core coverage of world English and Australian English. Compiled with the general reader in mind, it is an ideal reference for home, school or the office.

It features:
- more than 39,000 definitions
- new entries such as freecycle, microbead, listicle, grolar bear and digital tattoo
- a list common abbreviations
- countries of the world, their capital cities, languages and currencies