catch-all
nounEtymology From catch + -all.
1
Any place or repository where things are placed indiscriminately or without careful thought.
- 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.
1 more example
- Cancer is a catch-all term that encompasses a wide variety of diseases.
2
Abbreviation, Broadly, Ellipsis Ellipsis of catch-all term.
- Derived terms
- catch-allism, catch-all party, catch-all phrase, catch-all term, catch-all word