catchall
something that holds or includes many different things
TRANSLATION
catchall = Tasche oder Behälter für alles mögliche (auch im übetragenen Sinn) catchall term = (unbestimmter / vager) Sammelbegriff --- GOOGLE INDEX 29,700,000 hits
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Today, there is not a CATCHALL application that can satisfy all the compliance questions and requirements; however, fixed-disk compliance solutions can go a long way in meeting the initial requirements to the compliance problem.
Data lifecycle management: hard drives are not enough
Data lifecycle management: hard drives are not enough
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catchall
noun
something that holds or includes many different things
(Cambridge Dictionary)
Catchall is an example of a compound word, which is a term comprising two or more words, although in English three-word compound terms are the exception rather than the rule. But we do have some like insofar, whatsoever and heretofore.
The trick to understanding a compound word is knowing where to separate the individual words. In the case of catchall, it's made up of "catch" and "all", not "cat" and "chall" as an example. As far as we know, there is no such word as "chall" anyway.
Catch is from the Anglo-French "cachier", to capture (animals) and further from the Vulgar Latin "captiare" (to try to seize, chase). When combined with "all" (every one of something, the whole of something), then catchall means to capture or hold the entire amount of something.
While it can be used in a literal sense to refer to a receptacle or storage area for odds and ends, it's more often applied in a figurative sense to describe something in very general terms, e.g. "Adaptive learning" is a catchall phrase for digital education tools that literally adapt to the students using them (Slate magazine)
SYNONYMS
across the board, broad, general, global, overall, sweeping
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"The arts" is a catchall for a variety of activities from painting to music.
noun
something that holds or includes many different things
(Cambridge Dictionary)
Catchall is an example of a compound word, which is a term comprising two or more words, although in English three-word compound terms are the exception rather than the rule. But we do have some like insofar, whatsoever and heretofore.
The trick to understanding a compound word is knowing where to separate the individual words. In the case of catchall, it's made up of "catch" and "all", not "cat" and "chall" as an example. As far as we know, there is no such word as "chall" anyway.
Catch is from the Anglo-French "cachier", to capture (animals) and further from the Vulgar Latin "captiare" (to try to seize, chase). When combined with "all" (every one of something, the whole of something), then catchall means to capture or hold the entire amount of something.
While it can be used in a literal sense to refer to a receptacle or storage area for odds and ends, it's more often applied in a figurative sense to describe something in very general terms, e.g. "Adaptive learning" is a catchall phrase for digital education tools that literally adapt to the students using them (Slate magazine)
SYNONYMS
across the board, broad, general, global, overall, sweeping
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The arts" is a catchall for a variety of activities from painting to music.
