: providing or offering a comprehensive range of goods or services at one location
also : provided or offered at such a location
one-stop shopping

Examples of one-stop in a Sentence

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In McIlwain’s vision, the clinic should be a one-stop shop and the donation could make that more of a reality. Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2025 The city and county opened one-stop permitting centers and waived certain zoning reviews for people who want to build homes that are roughly the same size as their prior residences. Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025 The company specializes in ornamental metal, architectural millwork and commercial and residential stone and serves as a one-stop shop for design, fabrication, installation and freight. Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 10 July 2025 What customers want is somebody else to do all the homework and provide a one-stop shop. Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 9 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for one-stop

Word History

First Known Use

1933, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of one-stop was in 1933

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“One-stop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one-stop. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.

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