[hy.phen.ate] vt -at.ed ; -at.ing (ca. 1889): to connect (as two words) or divide (as a word at the end of a line of print) with a hyphen -- hy.phen.ation n
[2]hyphenate n [fr. the hyphens in the titles of such people, as producer-director] (1974): a person who performs more than one function (as on a filmmaking project)