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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.
We must resist the temptation to use terrorism as a catch-all phrase for all serious domestic or international crimes.
Once this term began to be used, specificity disappeared and it became a catch-all phrase for all problematic Nigerian metalwork.
Claims: This catch-all term is commonly used to describe negotiations over lands, resources and self-government.
They are catch-all phrases that perhaps do not speak the intricacy of what they really mean.
It seemed to have been designed as a catch-all for everything that can damage it.

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