Wiktionary
a. Designed or intended to fit more than one type of function or application.
Wikipedia
Multi-purpose is something that has more than one purpose and may more specifically refer to:
Usage examples of "multi-purpose".
Despite Flavia's offers of teleportation, multi-purpose shuttles were used as these would provide ground transport, not best accomplished by 'portation which tended to go from Point A to any designated Point B.
He put in a change of clothes, a compass, a lamp, food for three days, water for six, a seed planter and a cloud-seeder for after that, and a wonderful multi-purpose machine that was designed to part oceans and make crop circles.
One wall boasted a weapons collection, Sumerian bronze standing beside the latest stressglass multi-purpose infantry small arms.