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Is it airconditioner, air-conditioner, or air conditioner? - Australian spelling
This is an example where the Macquarie dictionary and the Oxford dictionary agree.
The Macquarie and the Oxford state air conditioner.
In order to confirm the preferred spelling,
I also used Australian usage as determined by Google and Yahoo.
Yahoo is a much better tool in this situation as it tends to index more sites, however this is changing.
You should be careful not to rely on the search engines alone.
It is very possible many people using a secondary spelling variation or a vertical market,
with lots of online documents could bias the results.
In the situation where there is a choice from two good authoritative references that differ,
then further research is need. In this case they were in agreement
The preferred spelling in Australia is "air conditioner", as two words.
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