What is the difference between hyphenated and on-call?

hyphenated | on-call |

As a verb hyphenated

is (hyphenate).

As a adjective hyphenated

is written with a hyphen.

hyphenated

English

Verb

(head)

(hyphenate)

Compounding the word looked wrong, so I hyphenated it instead.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Written with a hyphen.

Some dictionaries list hyphenated words as though they contained no punctuation.

Of a person, considered to have more than one nationality or ethnicity (such as French-Canadian, Afro-Argentine, etc.).

"[The Community Newspaper] is one of the many symbolic emblems that stand for the other half of the hyphenated American’s identity. " Hyphenated Americans Must Look At Their Mirror -- The Community Newspaper -- To Do What Is Right, October 28, 2005.