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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
multipurpose
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a multipurpose room
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All of my possessions are multipurpose and petite.
▪ Contacted Saturday, he said he wanted to set up a multipurpose account to sponsor the King scholarships and office functions.
▪ Gathered together in the multipurpose room, the group begins with an activity that either students or teachers have organized.
▪ In the 1970s, as sports revenues from television soared, it was fashionable to build multipurpose stadiums with few fancy facilities.
▪ Their multipurpose suckers are also used for locomotion and hanging on.
▪ Walk-in showers, garden tubs and multipurpose nooks are among the other preferred housing elements.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
multipurpose

also multi-purpose, 1935, from multi- + purpose (n.).

Wiktionary
multipurpose

a. (senseid en having multiple uses)Having multiple uses.

WordNet
multipurpose

adj. having multiple uses; "a multipurpose tool"

Usage examples of "multipurpose".

Gates, first with crude explosives, then smoothed with powerful lasers, then they assembled the great dish-shaped depressions that would be the multipurpose, multifunction hearts and souls of the operation.

They were willing to trade off the advantages of multipurpose machines for the increased life-span of a dedicated single-purpose machine.

Unlike the multipurpose nature of Seven’s own standard servo, Noon’s device was capable of only two discreet functions: a mild tranquilizer beam and, in the event of an emergency, a preprogrammed escape command that would automatically transport the young man back to a secluded alley in Bhopal.

It's a multipurpose 4x4 wheeled vehicle with automatic transmission, power steering, and a Detroit Diesel 150-hp diesel V-8, air-cooled engine.

He set the kettle on the front burner of a stove that was older than he was, then walked over to the living room section of the large multipurpose room to flip on the early news.

He sniveled self-pityingly at the faded memories of past glories, for he had been reduced to driving a forklift, loading giant boxes of multipurpose paper onto outgoing spacers.

She had confided in me that Alessan had managed to breed some startlingly agile runners when his father had ordered him to produce a sturdier, multipurpose strain.