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hyphenated

/hahy-fuh-ney-tid/US // ˈhaɪ fəˌneɪ tɪd //UK // (ˈhaɪfəˌneɪtɪd) //

连字符的,连体的,连字符,连体字

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : of, relating to, or designating a person, group, or organization of mixed origin or identity: an Irish-American club and other hyphenated organizations.

Examples

  • However, the owners of hyphenated names should be tolerant when it comes to mixing up the order or leaving out parts.

  • If it’s not in there, pick which form—closed, hyphenated, or open—you think most clearly communicates what you are trying to say.

  • Theirs is the journey that cleared the path for me and the millions of successful, educated, hyphenated-Indian women like me.

  • Focused on the Indian need for appearances, she de-hyphenated her visit from Pakistan and bracketed it with ASEAN.

  • Trevor says that if he is to be hyphenated, he prefers Protestant-Irish to Anglo-Irish.

  • Obama presented himself as an American individual first, not, as Teddy Roosevelt would say, "a hyphenated American."

  • Most of the literary work of these two men was done jointly, hence their hyphenated signature.

  • The word withdraw or withdraw was inconsistently hyphenated; it was left as printed, and line-end hyphens were retained.

  • The following words occur with equal frequency in both the hyphenated and unhyphenated forms.

  • This text contains inconsistencies in spelling, accented characters and hyphenated words.

  • Those compound words which are hyphenated only on line breaks are rendered using modern usage.