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Liveinjapan Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Backorder / back-order

Backorder / back-order

Are they interchangable as bot a verb and a noun?

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Randon House treats back order (two words) as the noun and back-order (hyphenated) as the verb, but I see on the net that other dictionaries vary and that all permutations are in use rather indiscriminately. If you wish to be conservatively correct or initiate a one-man effort to standardize the word forms, I suggest using the Random House templates. I shall try to do the same.

— Mister Micawber

  • Randon House treats back order (two words) as the noun and back-order (hyphenated) as the verb, but I see on the net that other dictionaries vary and that all permutations are in use rather indiscriminately.
  • If you wish to be conservatively correct or initiate a one-man effort to standardize the word forms, I suggest using the Random House templates.
  • I shall try to do the same.
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Randon House treats back order (two words) as the noun and back-order (hyphenated) as the verb, but I see on the net that other dictionaries vary and that all permutations are in use rather indiscriminately. If you wish to be conservatively correct or initiate a one-man effort to standardize the word forms, I suggest using the Random House templates. I shall try to do the sam
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back order as the noun.

back-order as the verb.

Got it!

Thanks,MIster.
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