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What is a catch-all?

What is a catch-all? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any place or repository where things are placed indiscriminately or without careful thought.
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It's not, and it shouldn't be used as a kind of catch-all term to mean a big, powerful country.
Once this term began to be used, specificity disappeared and it became a catch-all phrase for all problematic Nigerian metalwork.
We must resist the temptation to use terrorism as a catch-all phrase for all serious domestic or international crimes.
It seemed to have been designed as a catch-all for everything that can damage it.
Its eggy, lightly sweet base is a perfect catch-all for summer fruits, especially those of the soft, fleshy variety.
The window-sill was a wide one, and Johnny, I found, used it as a catch-all.

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