ADJECTIVE
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designed for or serving two purposes
a supercomputer can be used for civilian or military purposes
How To Use dual-purpose In A Sentence
- Seek out dual-purpose products that multiply the looks you can create. Times, Sunday Times
- One of the former featured dual-purpose, pressurized, stainless-steel tanks that not only held the propellant, but also provided structural rigidity to support the weight of the missile and warhead.
- For Martin, the dual-purpose nature of the plan was a major draw.
- The conformation should reflect the breed's dual-purpose nature, and quality is more important than size.
- Hinkley's big dual-purpose machine uses the Daytona-derived 955 cc in-line triple, albeit detuned for low-end grunt.
- Russia has more than 100 satellites in orbit. Two-thirds of them are military or dual-purpose spacecraft, RIA Novosti said.
- A stigma has attached itself to the notion of dual-purpose jockeys. Times, Sunday Times
- It is a dual-purpose breed (with equal emphasis on meat and wool) and is commonly used in the sheep industry.
- Four years later the site became a dual-purpose manufacturing centre, making both bread and cakes, before the bakery focused on cake production in 1978.
- This dual-purpose apple has a sweet, mildly subacid taste, and typically stores up to six months.