having many different uses:Thisroomis multi-purpose – we use it formeetings,interviews, and takingbreaks.amulti-purposecleaner(Definition ofmulti-purposefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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multi-purposeSecond, the 1-ha method clearly suits many purposes reasonably well - as we discuss further below it is an importantmulti-purposeprotocol.From theCambridge English CorpusThis type of devices tries to mimic the performances of human hands in order to make high flexibilitymulti-purposedevices.From theCambridge English CorpusNone of the programs is suitable formulti-purposeapplications in environmental microbiology.From theCambridge English CorpusIf use is not the main factor that determines the design of a space one usually assumes the design must be general,multi-purpose, and non-specific.From theCambridge English CorpusBut just having those abstractmulti-purposerepresentations does not account for the what-it-is-like of seeing.From theCambridge English CorpusAmulti-purposetarget chamber and new options such as variable-delay red and blue auxiliary and diagnostic beam lines meet most of the demanding experimental needs.From theCambridge English CorpusIt would be wrong to use the findings of this study to generalise about themulti-purposemodel on the basis of six homes.From theCambridge English CorpusSuchmulti-purposereviews tend to exhaust themselves, with the result that they are often broad in scope but thin on detailed analysis.From theCambridge English CorpusA collection of various interchangeable and expendable gizmos, the house included inflatable beds and chairs that doubled as hovercrafts andmulti-purposerobots that could distinguish between flavours of canned soup.From theCambridge English CorpusAnother approach applies to the distribution of generic goods like well-being ormulti-purposeresources, like income, that are less likely to be tied up with specific 'social meanings'.From theCambridge English CorpusA real animal is inherently amulti-purposedevice that continuously constrains itself to act as a special-purpose device, in interaction with the environment and learning from experience.From theCambridge English CorpusCarers of day attenders seemed to benefit most from themulti-purposehome because some of them secured longer breaks from caring by their relative gaining access to respite care.From theCambridge English CorpusAll that we will need, and even this is possibly superfluous, is some sort ofmulti-purposetriggering device, such as that mobile all-purpose utility aid mentioned above.From theCambridge English CorpusIt also became evident that farmers preferredmulti-purposelegumes that produce grain for food and improve labour and land productivities (suppress weeds, improve soil) as well.From theCambridge English CorpusThe latter is simply another way of saying that since modules are required in order to constrain possible representations, such a constrained device is not general ormulti-purpose.From theCambridge English CorpusThese 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.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/multi-purpose##
