thank-you

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an expression, message, gift, or other acknowledgment of gratitude

   She sent a handwritten thank-you after the interview.

2. 2
   adj

   used before a noun to describe something that expresses gratitude

   The team organized a thank-you dinner for its volunteers.

A lexicalized form of the phrase thank you. The hyphen is standard when the expression functions as a noun or as an attributive adjective, as in a thank-you and a thank-you note. Dialectal thankee and thank ye represent older or reduced spoken forms of the same expression.

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