What does "we have noup-front costs to dissuade us" mean?

I'm quite certain the left out a space and noup-front costs should read no up-front costs. I do not know why they put a hyphen between 'up' and 'front'. Some people just like hyphens, I guess.

I think the meaning of "up front costs" has already been addressed.

Hyphens are mostly used to break single words into parts, or to join ordinarily separate words into single words. The use of the hyphen in English compound nouns and verbs has, in general, been steadily declining. Compounds that might once have been hyphenated are increasingly left with spaces or are combined into one word. In 2007, the sixth edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary removed the hyphens from 16,000 entries, such as fig-leaf (now fig leaf), pot-belly (now pot belly) and pigeon-hole (now pigeonhole). The advent of the Internet and the increasing prevalence of computer technology have given rise to a subset of common nouns that may in the past have been hyphenated (e.g. "toolbar", "hyperlink", "pastebin").



He used exacty the same text but with a space between 'no' and 'up'.

Thank you.
I knew noup-front costs should read no up-front costs, Roger.
But I failed to get the nuance of the meaning of up-front cost, which my dict says refers to the investment in advance.

Could be taken as start up costs, which is about the same thing.

That move parallels the steady decline of prescriptive nonsense, C.

Thanks