umbrella term
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A term used to cover a broad category of things rather than a single specific item.
- “Cryptology” is an umbrella term that encompasses cryptography and cryptanalysis.
- Today "queer" is an umbrella term for gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people.
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- Transmasculine is an umbrella term referring to individuals who were assigned to a female gender role at birth but at some point come to self-identify as men, or with some other masculine identity, rather than seeing themselves as women.2014, Tommaso M. Milani, Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 197: