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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.
But it was a desert outpost then, a catch-all for the human drift which every whirlwind of discovery sweeps along.
Claims: This catch-all term is commonly used to describe negotiations over lands, resources and self-government.
We must resist the temptation to use terrorism as a catch-all phrase for all serious domestic or international crimes.
The Contemporary World Cinema category is generally a catch-all and a crapshoot.
Once this term began to be used, specificity disappeared and it became a catch-all phrase for all problematic Nigerian metalwork.

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