attorney-in-fact vs hyphenate

attorney-in-fact

noun
  • An agent of the person giving him/her the power of attorney (for a specific purpose or for general purposes) to act on his or her behalf. The attorney-in-fact’s power and responsibilities depend on the specific powers granted in the power of attorney document. 

hyphenate

noun
  • A person or object with multiple duties, abilities or characteristics, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter". 

  • A person whose ethnicity is a multi-word hyphenated term, such as "African-American". 

verb
  • to join words or syllables with a hyphen. 

  • to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules by adding a hyphen on the end of the line. 

How often have the words attorney-in-fact and hyphenate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )