Are you sure about this? In the written English I'm familiar with, "database- and network-enabled" is an acceptable and indeed recommended shorthand even in formal writing for "database-enabled and network-enabled".
Wikipedia describes this usage here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphenation#Suspended_hyphens
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Are you sure about this? In the written English I'm familiar with,
"database- and network-enabled" is an acceptable and indeed recommended
shorthand even in formal writing for "database-enabled and
network-enabled".
Wikipedia describes this usage here:
http:// en.wikipedia. org/wiki/ Hyphenation# Suspended_ hyphens