Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A symbol ( – ) used in writing or printing to connect continuing or inclusive numbers or to connect elements of a compound adjective when either of the elements is an open compound, as 1880–1945 or Princeton–New York trains.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
en dash anden-dash .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Organisations (NGO) program & endash; the AusAID NGO
1999-2000 Aid Budget: Responding to our Neighbours' Needs 1999
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East Asia and the Pacific & endash; almost $890 million.
1999-2000 Aid Budget: Responding to our Neighbours' Needs 1999
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This is an increase of $22 million over the 1998-99 budget figure of $1,480 million & endash; maintaining the level of the aid program in real terms.
1999-2000 Aid Budget: Responding to our Neighbours' Needs 1999
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Official Development Assistance (ODA) for 1999-2000 will be$1. 5 billion & endash; a $22 million increase over the
1999-2000 Aid Budget: Responding to our Neighbours' Needs 1999
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Package of assistance aimed at poverty alleviation and sustainable development at the grassroots level & endash; including increases for demining, the Human Rights Fund, microfinance and assistance provided directly by
1999-2000 Aid Budget: Responding to our Neighbours' Needs 1999
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Diagnostics when run suggest that the modem is in use by something else & endash;
MacWindows 2009
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New generations appear, each temperamentally adjusted & endash; or as I believe our American glossary now has it, 'conditioned' - to new increments of State power, and they tend to take the process of continuous accumulation as quite in order.
British Blogs 2009
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Another attempt in May 1783 to get Congress to buy them & endash; this time to give as gifts to the soldiers being discharged -- failed, and Aitken ended up losing over
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Diagnostics when run suggest that the modem is in use by something else & endash;
MacWindows 2009
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Another attempt in May 1783 to get Congress to buy them & endash; this time to give as gifts to the soldiers being discharged -- failed, and Aitken ended up losing over
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Chris Rodda 2009
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