dual-purpose

[ doo-uhl-pur-puhs, dyoo- ]

/ ˈdu əlˈpɜr pəs, ˈdyu- /

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adjective

serving two functions: a dual-purpose database for research and teaching.

(of cattle) bred for two purposes, as to provide beef and milk.

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Origin of dual-purpose

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby dual-purpose

duality principle, dualize, dually, Dual Monarchy, dual personality, dual-purpose, dual sensory impairment, dual space, Duane, duarchy, Duarte

How to use dual-purpose in a sentence

Hence, like the Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn, they may claim to be a dual-purpose breed.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5|Various
Cattle is generally divided into dairy, beef and dual purpose breeds.
Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry|Pratt Food Co.
The dual purpose of the revision of this work has been simplification and amplification.
A Thousand Years of Jewish History|Maurice H. (Maurice Henry) Harris
So he stayed on Folly Bay territory with a dual purpose: to make money for himself, and to deprive Gower of profit where he could.
Poor Man's Rock|Bertrand W. Sinclair

The monstrous scope and dual purpose of the work prevented any unity in method and arrangement.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor

British Dictionary definitions for dual-purpose

dual-purpose

adjective

having or serving two functions

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