one-stop

adjective

Describing a service operation at which all of a customer's needs may be satisfied without visiting another.

“a one-stop home design center”

Meanings

adjectiveone-stop (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemanagementDescribing a service operation at which all of a customer's needs may be satisfied without visiting another.

    a one-stop home design center

    2 more examples

    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

    Features like storefronts for brands could be understood as attempts by TikTok to catch up to Instagram’s own recent attempts at becoming a one-stop shopping destination.

    2021 October 2, John Herrman, “Will TikTok Make You Buy It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2022
nounone-stop (plural one-stops)

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

Origin

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Chicago

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