The Macquarie Compact Dictionary is based on the complete Macquarie Dictionary Ninth Edition. It is an up-to-date record of the core of Australian English, in a convenient format.

The Macquarie Compact Dictionary features:

- more than 50,000 words and phrases

- up-to-date entries such as coercive control, long COVID, net zero, Omicron, range anxiety, Teal, truth-telling

- pronunciations in the International Phonetic Alphabet

- idiomatic phrases

- illustrative phrases showing how a word is used in context