| 词汇 | catch-all |
| 释义 | catch-all adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈkætʃ.ɔːl/ us /ˈkætʃ.ɑːl/ general and intended to include everything: 宽泛的；包罗万象的；面面俱到的 catch-all phrase "Emerging writer" is a catch-all phrase used for a writer who has yet to publish a book. catch-all term "South London" is a catch-all term for anywhere south of the river. Complete and whole (all) in one pieceidiom aggregate all or nothingidiom all toldidiom all-in-one all-inclusive fell fibre full strength full-length fully fully fledged globally systemic thoroughgoingly thoroughly through and throughidiom to the lastidiom totality toto catch-all noun[ C ] uk /ˈkætʃ.ɔːl/ us /ˈkætʃ.ɑːl/ a very general description that is intended to include everything or many different things: "Graffiti" is used as a catch-all for a lot of things, from incredible street art to annoying scribbles. Reasons given for monitoring our communications could be terrorism, drug-dealing, serious crime, tax evasion and that greatest of catch-alls, "the national interest". Summaries and summarizing abridgment abstract biodata brushstroke catch-all phrase encapsulation executive summary gist handout in shortidiom recapitulation resume shorthand shorthand for somethingidiom story sum (something/someone) up TLDR to cut a long story shortidiom trot upsum Examples of catch-allcatch-all 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. The latter is, of course, a catch-all for anything that is not pitch or volume. The word tends to get bandied around as a catch-all, so that it loses touch with any specific meaning. This result is consistent with expectations that catch-all parties, because they need to appeal to the broadest base of support, do not foster strong preferences. She successfully avoids a reductionist, catch-all adoption of any single view, shedding critical light on all three. This is in a sense the catch-all for all other concepts. In traditional prescriptive teaching and in some manuals of grammar and style, the little verb get has been excoriated as a catch-all for lazy imprecise people. Moreover, voters are more likely to have strong attachments to parties that cater more specifically to their needs, as opposed to catch-all parties that appeal to the median voter. See all examples of catch-all These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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