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A hyphen is a symbol used to join two words or two syllables of a single word together. It is not to be confused with dashes or the minus symbol, as these are all longer than the hyphen and serve different purposes in language.

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Multiple hyphens in a word or 'word': are such assemblages acceptable?

I don't personally think that using multiple hyphens is a general problem. I have often seen words like "four-year-old" and the like to make an example. Since self-sustaining is written with a hyphen …
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