fast-breaking

1. 1.

   occurring rapidly as a series of events in rapid succession

   “the broadcast was interrupted by a fast-breaking news story about the invasion”

   Similarfast

   news article

Questions about fast-breaking

What does fast-breaking mean?

fast-breaking means "occurring rapidly as a series of events in rapid succession".

How many syllables are in fast-breaking?

fast-breaking has 4 syllables and divides as fast--bre-a-king under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is fast-breaking a common word?

fast-breaking is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.