It has three disjoint sorts: action for actions, situation for situations and a catch-all sort object for everything else depending on the domain of application.
Certainly syphilis appears to have been something of a catch-all disease.
Culture appears to be a catch-all term to explain all unmeasured differences among people with different ways of life and different belief systems.
Transnationalism is in danger of becoming a catch-all concept, with almost as many meanings as there are instances of it.
Rexism was a haven for all malcontents, a catch-all party, a hotch-potch where everyone looked after himself without being reprimanded by the landlord.
This catch-all party thesis became a dominant research programme in the literature on party competition and voter alignment.
Maybe the catch-all term fundamentalism has much to answer for.
A further section is given over to the management of ' special syndromes ', a catch-all term for those problems not easily positioned elsewhere.