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all-purpose

[ awl-pur-puhs ]

adjective

  1. for every purpose:

    an all-purpose detergent.



all-purpose

adjective

  1. useful for many things
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of all-purpose1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Morgan was impatient with acquaintances who wished to compress all these considerations into a single all-purpose maxim.

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It is expected the 15 local authorities in Essex - which includes 12 district and borough councils - would be replaced with between two and five all-purpose, unitary councils.

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He accumulated 7,601 all-purpose yards and has scored 72 touchdowns in his career.

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It calls for rooting out “waste, fraud, and abuse,” that all-purpose chimera evoked by budget-cutters as a painless way of reducing costs, but which no one ever seems to accomplish.

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The person setting all this in motion is a Harkonnen, a name associated in the movie “Dune”-iverse with violent strongman rulership and all-purpose villainy.

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