0 able to be used in many different ways or situations: --
The music it now intones might be described as a kind of all-purpose shout.
Visually it was disappointing, with sets as hideous as the costumes, charmless polystyrene blocks serving as all-purpose props for the huge but under-directed cast.
The text of the offertory is an all-purpose one, suitable for almost any occasion.
Any explanation of mechanisation must stress the importance of the introduction, in 1930, of the small combine-harvester operated by power take-off from an all-purpose tractor.
The idea is that an older generation of speakers still uses the ancestral language as an all-purpose language, but also as an in-group secret language.
This disassociation between the relative salience of objects and relations during mapping versus during retrieval cannot be accommodated with an all-purpose salience assignment.
Besides approximation and code switching, substitution processes underlie a third problem-solving device as well-the use of all-purpose-words.
Varieties that can be used for all three are considered to be 'all-purpose' and are highly valued by the growers for their versatility and marketability.