all-purpose

Instead, the term “efficiency” is an all-purpose explanation for eliminating any program with no direct value to an imposed ideological agenda.

Morgan was impatient with acquaintances who wished to compress all these considerations into a single all-purpose maxim.

It is expected the 15 local authorities in Essex - which includes 12 district and borough councils - would be replaced with between two and five all-purpose, unitary councils.

He accumulated 7,601 all-purpose yards and has scored 72 touchdowns in his career.

It calls for rooting out “waste, fraud, and abuse,” that all-purpose chimera evoked by budget-cutters as a painless way of reducing costs, but which no one ever seems to accomplish.