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- long-term-payment loan
- low-cost housing
- lump-sum payment
- most-favored-nation clause
- multiple-purpose uses
- no-par-value stock
- one-on-one situation
- part-time personnel
- rust-resistant covering
- service-connected disability
- state-of-the-art technology
- supply-side economics
- tool-and-die maker
- up-or-down vote
- U.S.-owned property; U.S.-flagship
- 1-inch diameter; 2-inch-diameter pipe
- a 4-percent increase, the 10-percent rise
- but
- 4 percent citric acid
- 4 percent interest. (Note the absence of an article: a, an, or the. The word of is understood here.)
6.16.
Where meaning is clear and readability is not aided, it is not necessary to use a hyphen to form a temporary or made compound. Restraint should be exercised in forming unnecessary combinations of words used in normal sequence.
- atomic energy power
- bituminous coal industry
- child welfare plan
- civil rights case
- civil service examination
- durable goods industry
- flood control study
- free enterprise system
- ground water levels
- high school student
- elementary school grade
- income tax form
- interstate commerce law
- land bank loan
- land use program
- life insurance company
- mutual security funds
- national defense appropriation
- natural gas company
- per capita expenditure
- Portland cement plant
- production credit loan
- public at large
- public utility plant
- real estate tax
- small businessman
- Social Security pension
- soil conservation measures
- special delivery mail
- parcel post delivery
- speech correction class
but no-hyphen rule (readability aided); not no hyphen rule
6.17.
Print without a hyphen a compound predicate adjective or predicate noun the second element of which is a present participle.
- The duties were price fixing.
- The shale was oil bearing.
- The effects were far reaching.
- The area is used for beet raising.
