Definitions for all-purpose

all-purpose all-pur·pose

Spelling: [awl-pur-puh s]
IPA: /ˈɔlˈpɜr pəs/

All-Purpose is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 629 anagrams from letters in all-purpose (-aellopprsu).

Definitions for all-purpose

adjective

  1. for every purpose:

Origin of all-purpose

First recorded in 1925-30

Examples for all-purpose

He had hanged himself with 550 cord, an all-purpose green string that looks like a shoelace and can hold 550 pounds.

The carabao, or water buffalo, is the one all-purpose farm animal.

Runkel's all-purpose Cocoa is the finest quality chocolate, already a powder, all ready to use!

But college is not like some sort of all-purpose herbal supplement that cures bunions and also colic; it teaches specific skills.

This all-purpose response would also allow one to deny that there is a missing Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777.

They were sitting in all-purpose Lounges, arranged in a circle.

An all-purpose goat's milk, Parmesan type, eaten sliced when young, grated when old.

Or maybe we are just whiny wimps, an all-purpose explanation for every descent-of-man phenomenon that never is far off the mark.

But the pope thought of him more as an all-purpose authority on anything scientific or technical.

It would be nice if we could report that they are fit for all-purpose service, on a wide range of planets.

Word Value for all-purpose
Scrable

3

Words with friends

5

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