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one-stop shop en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (informal) A single place, institution, service, website, technology, etc., that provides everything necessary.
    • 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:
    • Considerations are being made on how to create a "one-stop shop" for passengers, with the role of the Rail Ombudsman and the passenger regulation powers held by ORR and Transport Focus possibly rolled into one body. 2025 March 5, Richard Wilcock, “DfT sets out its plans with rail reform consultation”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 28:
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • It was a one-stop political and policy shop, a sort of shadow Republican Party but crafted in the libertarian molds of the Kochs and entirely controlled by them. That wasn’t the only thing that the Koch brothers did differently. 2019 August 23, Chris Cillizza, “How the Koch brothers fundamentally changed modern politics”, in CNN:
    • a one-stop shop for dispute processing

Forms

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Relateds

full service · supermarket · turnkey operation

Translations (10)

de Anlaufstelle (the only place or institution one needs) · fr bonne porte (the only place or institution one needs) · cmn 一站式 (the only place or institution one needs) · es tienda uniparada (the only place or institution one needs) · fr guichet unique (the only place or institution one needs) · es ventanilla única (the only place or institution one needs) · cmn 一門式 /一门式 (the only place or institution one needs) · ka უნივერსალური მაღაზია (the only place or institution one needs) · da rådgivningskontor (the only place or institution one needs) · fi palvelupiste (the only place or institution one needs)