If we want to use compound adjectives like "result-oriented" and "client-oriented" together to describe a person, how do we use the hyphen?
- A result and client-oriented person.
- A result- and client-oriented person.
- Another way.
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Does this answer your question? How to use hyphens appropriately when listing multiple hyphenated terms? The specific example there was about *ground-, water-, and air-based robots* – FumbleFingers Jul 28 '20 at 16:16
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It is common to use suspended hyphens when a single base word is used with separate, consecutive, hyphenated words that are connected by commas or "and", "or", or "to". Your number (2) is an example of this style.
Horses were common in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.
A result- and client-oriented person.
A fire-, dog-, and soot-proof jacket.
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