The word 'compound' is correct and usable in written English. It is an adjective meaning composed of two or more parts, ingredients, or elements, or having two or more stresses. You can use the word 'compound' to describe something that is composed of multiple elements, or made up of multiple parts. For example: The compound structure of a molecule is made up of atoms.
At the moment, the path up the mountain is difficult to find and the views from the top are restricted by a fenced-off telecoms compound.
A large tranche of emails from Hillary Clinton's private server were made public on Thursday, showing the presidential candidate and former US secretary of state's correspondence in the wake of the September 2012 terrorist attack on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed ambassador Chris Stevens.
The activist group Progress Illinois said several more people were expected to tell their stories of being detained at the west-side holding and interrogation compound at Saturday's protest.
The total return of £14,897, equivalent to a compound annual return of 16.2%, was boosted by price rises of 8.3% in 2014, when the property market recovered from its post-crisis slump.
It said he had been moved to an island compound in the Caribbean.
On a street nearby, Janet Ebi shelled periwinkles picked from the murky swamps close to the compound where Jonathan grew up.
Recently revealed plans indicating that Zuckerberg does not intend to build an entire compound on his land, but rather a single property, suggest that he is determined to surround himself with, well, almost no one (with the exception, presumably, of his wife, Priscilla Chan).
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