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How to pronounce catchall in English?

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Type Words
Type of enclosure, receptacle

Examples of catchall

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To many Sunni Arabs, though, it is a catchall term employed to disenfranchise them.
From the nytimes.com
Giftedness is a catchall term for children with abilities beyond their years.
From the washingtonpost.com
The catchall term prehistoric art works perfectly with this sort of thinking.
From the time.com
SaaS is the catchall name for on-demand software applications like those on an iPhone.
From the online.wsj.com
By that time, however, the recall petition had become a grievance catchall.
From the time.com
Remarkably, Flight 001 is seeing a surge in catchall shoulder-bag sales.
From the sfgate.com
This is the safe, catchall vagueness of astrologists and palm readers.
From the theatlantic.com
However, it has become a catchall term for a variety of rolls and rice topped with raw fish.
From the dallasnews.com
Still, Jack White and Brendan Benson's catchall rock excursion was never about warning shots.
From the denverpost.com
More examples
  • An enclosure or receptacle for odds and ends
  • In common use, a catchall or catch-all is a general term, or physical dumping group.
  • Any place or repository where things are placed indiscriminately or without careful thought
  • A keno game that requires you to catch all of the numbers you have marked on your ticket.
  • A program that allows any email sent to your domain to go to a particular email address. That allows any email sent to a misspelled or unused username will still get to a person who can deal with them.
  • Should be kept for all errors that cannot be thought of during design time.
  • This term along with Catch-zero are commonly used in Keno. In catch-all the players have to get all the numbers that are marked on their ticket and in catch-zero, the method is totally opposite i-e they player should not get any number that he marked on the ticket.
  • An email server function that forwards all questionable email to a single mailbox. The catch-all should be monitored regularly to find misdirected questions, unsubscribes or other genuine live email