Friends - I need your expertise. ‼️ Is it onsite or on-site when...

Friends - I need your expertise. ‼️ Is it onsite or on-site when referring to property management? Hyphen or no hyphen? ???? Merriam Webster says on-site should be hyphenated. The Cambridge dictionary includes onsite (without the hyphen) and on-site (hyphenated), while the American Heritage dictionary only lists onsite (no hyphen).

Guest Insider I always type it out with no hyphen. Purely out of laziness and because my computer doesn’t underline in red squiggly lines

Guest Insider I think the industry has widely adopted onsite.

Kara Bonzheim Kinda like multi family and multifamily. I would say no hyphen. Onsite

Guest Insider I was just about to say I’m still trying to figure out multifamily.

Guest Insider Real Page uses “On-Site” for their platform. Not to be confused with “OneSite”.

Guest Insider I like it hyphenated

Guest Insider I think it is on-site before the noun and on site in all other cases.

Mark Tanguay It depends on if you are using it as a adjective, adverb, or prepositional phrase. I am doing on-site work. The work is an onsite task. I am working on site.

Khara House (Shoves her word nerd specs a little higher on her nose...)
On-site is the preferred use when being used as an adjective or adverb before a noun, as is off-site. On site or off site are preferred use after a noun or pronoun when used as a location phrase versus referring directly to the noun.
Onsite is accepted more these days in American English as hyphen use fades, but offsite is less accepted in the dehyphenization "movement."
Technically onsite or on-site are both correct, but on-site is still, for now, the preferred grammatical term.

Guest Insider Guess it's all about you audiences are the on -site or onsite?

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