亚洲网紅露点

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all-purpose

[ awl-pur-puhs ]

adjective

  1. for every purpose:

    an all-purpose detergent.



all-purpose

adjective

  1. useful for many things
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of all-purpose1

First recorded in 1925鈥30
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Instead, the term 鈥渆fficiency鈥 is an all-purpose explanation for eliminating any program with no direct value to an imposed ideological agenda.

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Morgan was impatient with acquaintances who wished to compress all these considerations into a single all-purpose maxim.

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It is expected the 15 local authorities in Essex - which includes 12 district and borough councils - would be replaced with between two and five all-purpose, unitary councils.

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He accumulated 7,601 all-purpose yards and has scored 72 touchdowns in his career.

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It calls for rooting out 鈥渨aste, fraud, and abuse,鈥 that all-purpose chimera evoked by budget-cutters as a painless way of reducing costs, but which no one ever seems to accomplish.

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