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all-you-can-eat

all-you-can-eat adjective: offering unlimited food to a diner at a restaurant for a fixed price for as long as the diner continues to eat.

Adjective

all-you-can-eat (not comparable)

  1. (literally) Offering unlimited food to a diner at a restaurant for a fixed price for as long as the diner continues to eat.
    • It's an all-you-can-eat deal, and students can use their meal cards at numerous campus snack bars and sandwich shops.1995, Edward B Fiske, The Fiske Guide to Colleges 1995
    • JT's serves all-you-can-eat prime rib on Wednesday nights for $18.99.2007, Bob Sehlinger, Grant Rafter, Katie Brandon, Beyond Disney
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Offering unlimited service for a fixed price per time period.
    • "Last year, when they came out with their all-you-can-eat, $19.95 per month service, it nearly brought them down."1998 January 19, Network World, volume 15, number 3
    • Nokia has unveiled its all-you-can-eat Comes With Music package for the United Kingdom[…]2008 October 11, Billboard

all-you-can-eat meaning in Indonesian and Myanmar

all-you-can-eat in Indonesian

offering unlimited food to a diner at a restaurant
makan sepuasnya
offering unlimited service for a fixed price per time period
makan sepuasnya

all-you-can-eat in Myanmar

offering unlimited food to a diner at a restaurant
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Questions about all-you-can-eat

What does all-you-can-eat mean?
All-you-can-eat means offering unlimited food to a diner at a restaurant for a fixed price for as long as the diner continues to eat.
What is all-you-can-eat in Indonesian?
All-you-can-eat in Indonesian is makan sepuasnya. See All-you-can-eat meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is all-you-can-eat?
All-you-can-eat is an adjective.

Words near all-you-can-eat in the dictionary

  1. all-wheel
  2. all-wheel drive
  3. all-wheel drives
  4. all-woman
  5. all-year-round
  6. all-you-can-eat
  7. alla
  8. alla breve
  9. alla cappella
  10. alla marcia
  11. alla prima

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