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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
one-stop
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
shopping
▪ First is the main exception to the principle of one-stop shopping.
▪ Where now is the consumer's demand for weekly one-stop shopping when bread has to be bought fresh daily?
▪ For one-stop shopping for all your sightseeing and entertainment needs, call the Bureau.
▪ It's the ideal one-stop shopping option for the d-i-y enthusiast.
▪ Where more than 700 competitive service specialists offer you one-stop shopping.
▪ The proposition is simple - one-stop shopping for both lubricants and vehicle parts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ First is the main exception to the principle of one-stop shopping.
▪ He was a full-service hypnotherapist, a one-stop brain wave shopping source.
▪ Is not there a means of creating a one-stop application in such circumstances?
▪ Southerners buy own label products and are one-stop shoppers.
▪ The attraction to consumers, Schneider said, would be one-stop shopping and possibly extra services.
▪ The companies, including Pac Bell, are eager to provide one-stop communications shopping to consumers.
▪ The course developed by Newcastle poly which should become Northumbria University next month is a one-stop route to becoming a trainee solicitor.
▪ They have a one-stop flight via Copenhagen.
Wiktionary
one-stop

a. (context management English) Describing a service operation at which all of a customer's needs may be satisfied without visiting another.

Usage examples of "one-stop".

The podiatric click and thud, the visible breath, gravel's crunch, creak of Green's leather, the snick of a million urban lighters, the gauzy far-off humming ATHSCMEs pointing out true plumb north, the clunk and tinkle of stuff going into dumpsters and rustle of stuff in dumpsters settling and skirl of wind on the sharp edges of dumpsters and unmistakable clanks and tinkles of dumpster-divers and can-miners going after dumpsters' cans and bottles, the district Redemption Center down in West Brighton and actually even boldly sharing a storefront with Liquor World liquor store, so the can-miners can do like one-stop redeeming and shopping.

The fact is, some neon lights and a few one-stop wedding chapels would make Von Braunville look an awful lot like that down-on-its-luck Nevada city.