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Black’s Dictionary is building toward nonprofit status. Gifts fund research, archiving, and the first print edition.
Where your gift goes
Every dollar has a job.
Research
Sourcing, dating, and citing each word to the people it came from.
Servers & bandwidth
Keeping the archive live and fast for every reader, everywhere.
Maintenance
Guarding the archive against loss, errors, and decay.
Development
Building the tools that let the community add and verify words.
Most importantly
Preservation of history
Protecting the origins so the credit is never erased again.
And beyond
Furthering the culture
Not just guarding the record — growing it, and carrying the culture forward.