RE: Roundtrip, round trip, round-trip?

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

It's hyphenated here,
http://www.travelocity.com/Flights/0,2681,TRAVELOCITY||,00.html and here,
http://www.orbitz.com/ (under Flights).  Airline ads also leave out the
hyphen, but when the hyphen is absent, then the trip seems "round," which it
is not, it is a "round-trip."  "Roundtrip" is gaining acceptance as a word.
Answers.com accepts all three variants,
http://www.answers.com/topic/roundtrip?cat=technology.

My tendency is to follow the convention of the most prevailing industry
usage of the term.  In this case, "round-trip."

Lauren

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> What would you do with this term as a noun in a software environment? 
> Closed, open, or hyphenated?  If the open two-word form, you'd then 
> hyphenate it as an adjective preceding the noun it modifies?
> 
> I'm familiar with what WM's Collegiate, RH, and AH have to say.  I'm 
> wondering what the latest trend is in the real world.  I'm tending to 
> see it spelled open, and wondering whether it ought actually to be 
> (at this point) one word. In terms of our general usage, we do spell 
> some words in the process of change as one.  But I don't have a sense 
> of whether that would be taking it too far with this one just yet.
> 
> 
> Odile
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