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Any place or repository where things are placed indiscriminately or without careful thought.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- If you're not careful, the entrance table will quickly become a catch-all for things that come in the door.
- The category was a catch-all for items that were not filed elsewhere.
- Cancer is a catch-all term that encompasses a wide variety of diseases.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Ellipsis of catch-all term.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, broadly, ellipsis
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Etymology tree Latin captus Proto-Indo-European *-yetider. Latin -io Vulgar Latin *captiāre Old French chacierbor. Anglo-Norman cachierbor. Middle English cacchen English catch English -all English catch-all From catch + -all.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
за всякакви неща
— used to hold, include, or describe a broad range of things
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Finnish:
kaikenkattava
— used to hold, include, or describe a broad range of things
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Finnish:
yleinen
— used to hold, include, or describe a broad range of things
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Finnish:
yleiskäsite
— used to hold, include, or describe a broad range of things
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French:
attrape-tout
— used to hold, include, or describe a broad range of things
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French:
fourre-tout
— used to hold, include, or describe a broad range of things
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German:
Sammelplatz
— used to hold, include, or describe a broad range of things
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German:
Auffangbecken
— used to hold, include, or describe a broad range of things
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German:
Sammel-
— used to hold, include, or describe a broad range of things
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German:
Sammelbegriff (catchall phrase oder term)
— used to hold, include, or describe a broad range of things
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German:
Sammelbecken
— used to hold, include, or describe a broad range of things
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Polish:
wytrych
— used to hold, include, or describe a broad range of things
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Spanish:
comodín
— used to hold, include, or describe a broad range of things
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Spanish:
factótum
— used to hold, include, or describe a broad range of things
