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Yes, I have frequently seen "POS" used as an adjective when describing
software.
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From: Margaret Cekis
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:00 PM
To: Robin Davidson; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: [stclwrsig-l] Developing a style guide
...I think that "point of sale" is one of those terms that is in
transition between being a word phrase and a compound word. As such, it
is separate words in a phrase when it is a noun, and hyphenated when it
is an adjective:
Noun example: We need to serve our customers better, both at the point
of sale and afterward.
Adjective example: The new store needed more point-of-sale cashiers.
There were long lines at every register.
My company tends to abbreviate it to POS. That's another way of avoiding
the consistency problem.
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