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all-purpose
[ awl-pur-puhs ]
adjective
- for every purpose:
an all-purpose detergent.
all-purpose
adjective
- useful for many things
Word History and Origins
Origin of all-purpose1
Example Sentences
Morgan was impatient with acquaintances who wished to compress all these considerations into a single all-purpose maxim.
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.
He accumulated 7,601 all-purpose yards and has scored 72 touchdowns in his career.
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.
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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