one-stop shop

noun

A single place, institution, service, website, technology, etc., that provides everything necessary.

“a one-stop shop for dispute processing”

Meanings

nounone-stop shop (plural one-stop shops)

plural one-stop shops

  1. informalA single place, institution, service, website, technology, etc., that provides everything necessary.

    a one-stop shop for dispute processing

    5 more examples

    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

    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

    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

    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

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 一門式 /一门式, 一站式
  • 一門式 /一门式 (yīménshì)the only place or institution one needs
  • 一站式 (yīzhànshì)the only place or institution one needs
Danish rådgivningskontor
  • rådgivningskontorthe only place or institution one needs
Finnish palvelupiste
  • palvelupistethe only place or institution one needs
French bonne porte, guichet unique
  • bonne portethe only place or institution one needs
  • guichet uniquethe only place or institution one needs
German Anlaufstelle
  • Anlaufstellethe only place or institution one needs
Spanish ventanilla única, tienda uniparada
  • ventanilla únicathe only place or institution one needs
  • tienda uniparadathe only place or institution one needs
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Chicago

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