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Peachy Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Should "job seekers" be hyphenated?

Hello,

Here is a particular example:

"Over 95 percent of job seekers use the Internet to source jobs."

Should it always be hyphenated?

Thanks for you help!
  

Top answer

Web searches are notoriously unreliable, but I did a quick web search on this topic for you anyway. As far as I can tell, job-seekers is not a word. We are stuck with job seekers, two words.

— Ed shaw

  • Web searches are notoriously unreliable, but I did a quick web search on this topic for you anyway.
  • As far as I can tell, job-seekers is not a word.
  • We are stuck with job seekers, two words.
  • However, I notice the phrase is quite popular on the internet, for obvious reasons.
  • " Advertising language occupies its own niche in the language, and the rules of it are quite flexible.
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Web searches are notoriously unreliable, but I did a quick web search on this topic for you anyway. As far as I can tell, job-seekers is not a word. We are stuck with job seekers, two words. However, I notice the phrase is quite popular on the internet, for obvious reasons.

There is such a thing as "advertising language." Advertising language occupies its own niche in the language, and
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Thanks! I will leave it as is.
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