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general-purpose

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gen·er·al-pur·pose (jnr-l-pûrps)
adj.
Designed for or suitable to more than one use; broadly useful: a general-purpose loan.

general-purpose
Adjective
having a variety of uses: general-purpose cooking oil
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Adj.1.general-purpose - not limited in use or function
general - applying to all or most members of a category or group; "the general public"; "general assistance"; "a general rule"; "in general terms"; "comprehensible to the general reader"


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We also believe that another key task for the committee will be to determine if private company user needs create objectives that are consistent with, or divergent from, the current objectives of general-purpose external financial reporting contained in the existing FASB (and proposed joint FASB/IASB) conceptual framework.
However, some of the more common approaches SMBs use to add storage--such as adding a new hard disk to a general-purpose server, or adding a new general-purpose server for a particular task-- can be disruptive and time-consuming.
According to the company, they are the fastest supercomputers in the world and the first general-purpose reconfigurable computers.
 
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