catch-all

noun

1. 1. something designed to cover a variety of situations or possibilities

   2. ( as modifier )

      a catch-all clause

Example Sentences

Babis is in talks with the far-right SPD and the right-wing Motorists to form a government after his catch-all ANO party won a general election in October.

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The commissioner warned against using "grooming gangs" as a catch-all term because offending includes abuse within families, in institutions, between peers and online.

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To Rosenberg, this “catch-all” language was still too broad, and still would have “justified … using the data for all kinds of things.”

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At the time, the catch-all term “post-rock,” which has been used to describe a wide range of styles from acts on both sides of the Atlantic, seemed the most efficient way to convey its sound.

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And honestly, should the police be a catch-all for everything?

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