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

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Best Shopping The Shops at La Cantera With its dog-friendly atmosphere, resort-style landscaping, and blend of dining, drinking, and shopping, La Cantera has become a one-stop destination in the Alamo City. Kat Stinson, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2025 For a one-stop shop on how to train to race a marathon, this is the book. Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 9 Dec. 2025 The co-owners of Guitar Wars hope the new store will be a kind of one-stop shop, offering more than retail items such as new and vintage guitars and other instruments. George Avalos, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025 The poster child is the state’s most ambitious technology project, called the Financial Information System for California, or FI$Cal for short, launched in 2005 as a one-stop application for managing state finances. Dan Walters, Oc Register, 2 Dec. 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 14 Dec. 2025.

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