one-stop shop
one-stop shop noun: a single place, institution, service, website, technology, etc., that provides everything necessary.
Noun
one-stop shop (plural one-stop shops)
- A single place, institution, service, website, technology, etc., that provides everything necessary.
- a one-stop shop for dispute processing
- Smartly Styled Winter Outdoor Wear for Men and Boys. Make LUCAS' your one-stop-shop. You get all you need there !1948 April 8, The Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, page 5, column 6
Examples of one-stop shop in a sentence
- If anything on the internet makes a politician feel sad, from alleged copyright infringement to “the right to be forgotten”, there is now a one-stop shop to sort it all out: Google.2014 August 12, Tim Harford, “Monopoly is a bureaucrat’s friend but a democrat’s foe”, in Financial Times:
- General search engines are “one-stop shops” consumers can use to search the internet for answers to a wide range of queries.2020 October 20, US v. Google Complaint:
Forms of one-stop shop
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Questions about one-stop shop
- What does one-stop shop mean?
- One-stop shop means a single place, institution, service, website, technology, etc., that provides everything necessary.
- How do you use one-stop shop in a sentence?
- If anything on the internet makes a politician feel sad, from alleged copyright infringement to “the right to be forgotten”, there is now a one-stop shop to sort it all out: Google.
- What part of speech is one-stop shop?
- One-stop shop is a noun.
- What is the plural of one-stop shop?
- The plural of one-stop shop is one-stop shops.
Words near one-stop shop in the dictionary
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