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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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Its eggy, lightly sweet base is a perfect catch-all for summer fruits, especially those of the soft, fleshy variety.
It seems as though the government has used this budget bill as something of a catch-all.
It's not, and it shouldn't be used as a kind of catch-all term to mean a big, powerful country.
It seemed to have been designed as a catch-all for everything that can damage it.
Claims: This catch-all term is commonly used to describe negotiations over lands, resources and self-government.
But it was a desert outpost then, a catch-all for the human drift which every whirlwind of discovery sweeps along.

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