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hi-tech vs hitech

Both "hi-tech" and "hitech" are correct, but "hi-tech" is the more commonly used and accepted spelling in English. The hyphen helps to clarify that "hi" and "tech" are separate words that together form a compound adjective.

Last updated: March 23, 2024 • 1419 views

hi-tech

This is the more commonly used and accepted spelling in English.

The term "hi-tech" is used to describe technology that is advanced or sophisticated.
  • Spending good money on hi-tech security systems trying to feel safe.
  • The leap from plough to hi-tech tractor is not at all an appropriate one.
  • Nowadays, regeneration is a more hi-tech affair.
  • Like everything else, hockey's gone hi-tech.
  • The most hi-tech of the government's 16 intel agencies.
  • One-time keypad, custom job, very hi-tech.
  • Where people like me... were working in hi-tech factories.
  • The tires themselves are not quite so hi-tech.
  • What Bentham envisioned for a prison has now become the hi-tech Panopticon.
  • Union support to ICT research and innovation is also enabling hi-tech SMEs to grow and capitalise on the size of Union-wide markets.
  • I can't use hi-tech gizmos so I make do with a rotary phone and a gas stove.
  • That very day I also visited Unicor, which is one of the hi-tech companies that recycle electrical and electronic waste.
  • This will engender dependence, and may serve to deprive workers of production resources given the price of hi-tech equipment.
  • In preparing these remarks today, I recalled what I learned at school about the United Kingdom: 10 April 1912 was the date of another launch of a hi-tech future for Europe.
  • 'Even the hi-tech BMW was no help.'
  • But if finance continues to take a disproportionate number of the best and the brightest, there could be little British manufacturing left by 2050, and even fewer hi-tech firms than today.
  • Finally, I reiterate the point that the introduction of the Euro as our single currency will heighten the attractions of a small capital market for all Europe's fastgrowing hi-tech companies.
  • I represent the East of England, which includes Cambridge, one of the leading centres for hi-tech innovation in Europe, and this issue is therefore of great interest to me and my constituents.
  • In addition, it will create new opportunities for closer collaboration between teams of European researchers which may also be joined by numerous students and technical staff, thereby helping attract young people into hi-tech research.
  • The extra EUR 500 million that the European Central Bank is being asked to release on the pretext of stimulating job creation, as well as the EUR 1 billion for hi-tech SMEs are officially supposed to be used for investment.

Alternatives:

  • high-tech

hitech

This is a less common spelling but still correct.

The term "hitech" can also be used to describe advanced technology, but it is less common than "hi-tech".

Alternatives:

  • hi-tech
  • high-tech

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