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(Those who greet with consternation what might seem to be a publisher's fiddling with counts in dictionaries ought to know that the system for such counting was worked out in the 1930s, mainly between Merriam-Webster and the US Treasury Department, which was then in charge of all government purchases, as a means for assessing the information content of dictionaries being purchased for the government, a responsibility later shifted to another department.)
[Merriam-Webster III.]
Also, the editors have avoided the schwa \?\, preferring to resurrect the antediluvian system used by Merriam-Webster in the Second Edition of their Unabridged (and since abandoned by almost everyone).
The two larger one-volume works available are The Random House Unabridged (with 315,000 entries) and the Merriam-Webstar Unabridged, Third Edition (with about 460,000 entries).
Two of Merriam-Webster III's weirdest definitions are the famously convoluted wordings at the main senses of door and hotel .