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dual-purpose

[ doo-uhl-pur-puhs, dyoo- ]

adjective

  1. serving two functions:

    a dual-purpose database for research and teaching.

  2. (of cattle) bred for two purposes, as to provide beef and milk.


dual-purpose

adjective

  1. having or serving two functions
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of dual-purpose1

First recorded in 1910–15
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Also to the Jeep’s advantage is its dual-purpose nature; it’s equally at home on paved surfaces or when venturing off-road.

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With an efficiency apartment, the rooms are created by walls and there is very little opportunity to make a dual-purpose room out of any of the space in an efficiency apartment.

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The projectiles being sent to Ukraine are commonly referred to by the name given to those small grenades: dual-purpose improved conventional munitions, or D.P.I.C.M. — and pronounced by some officials as dee-PICK-’ems.

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For months, the top Republicans on the Senate and House foreign affairs and armed services committees — Representatives Michael McCaul of Texas and Mike Rogers of Alabama and Senators James Risch of Idaho and Roger Wicker of Mississippi — have been calling on the Biden administration to provide Ukraine with dual-purpose improved conventional munitions, of the sort that were approved on Friday.

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Republican Gov. Bill Lee pushed for the dual-purpose bill with the support from the GOP-dominant General Assembly this year.

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