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hyphenate
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Some schools are signing agreements with corporations and then hyphenating the corporate name with an existing traditional name (Hardware Store-Coaching Legend Field).
Naming rights for high school athletic facilities by Overton, Reginald F. / Coach and Athletic Director
Also included are such anomalous ideas as substituting longer, more complex words with a single meaning for simpler words with many meanings, and hyphenating normally unhyphenated words to improve comprehension.
Lessons on cross-cultural communication by Leaper, Norm / Communication World
The idea behind hyphenating a phrase in front of a noun is to let readers see it as a single thought, not as separate words.
Watch out for those pesky hyphens. (Editing) by Swift, Paul / The Newsletter on Newsletters
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