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one-stop

one-stop adjective: describing a service operation at which all of a customer's needs may be satisfied without visiting another.

Adjective

one-stop (not comparable)

  1. Describing a service operation at which all of a customer's needs may be satisfied without visiting another.
    • a one-stop home design center
    • At a local microlevel 'one-stop' or 'one-window' service delivery arrangements have proved popular.2004, Christopher Pollitt with Geert Bouckaert, Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis, page 85

Noun

one-stop (plural one-stops)

  1. A wholesaler serving the music industry.
    • Independent R&B music retailers around the country are banding together into coalitions, seeking to create the buying power of a chain and get increased attention and service from labels and one-stops.1994, Billboard, volume 106, number 22, page 45

Forms of one-stop

pluralone-stops

Origin of one-stop

Generalization of one-stop shop.

Phrases with one-stop

Questions about one-stop

What does one-stop mean?
One-stop means describing a service operation at which all of a customer's needs may be satisfied without visiting another.
What part of speech is one-stop?
One-stop can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near one-stop in the dictionary

  1. one-star
  2. one-start
  3. one-state solution
  4. one-step
  5. one-steps
  6. one-stop
  7. one-stop shop
  8. one-stop shops
  9. one-stops
  10. one-tap
  11. one-tapped

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