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According to Webster, versatile means capable to be turn around, changable, cariable, unsteady. Applied to a physical device, this may indicate one of its good properties.

Thie word may have also other meanings below.

Peter Pakosh, (third from right) and Roy Robinson (4th from right) , unveil a new Versatile D118 at a plant expansion ceremony in 1967.

For the use of the term "versatile" to describe the sexual role, see switch (sexuality)

Versatile is a Canadian brand of agricultural equipment that has produced augers, swathers, combine harvesters and most notably tractors. The company, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, currently belongs to Buhler Industries (Bühler). In the 1970s, it was an independent operation, founded by Peter Pakosh and Roy Robinson, that owned 70% of the 4WD tractor market and then was later owned by Ford and Fiat's New Holland, spun off when Case-International merged with New Holland to CNH Global.

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 According to [[Webster]], versatile means capable to be turn around, changable, cariable, unsteady.