one-stop shop

English

Noun

one-stop shop (plural one-stop shops)

1. (informal) The only place, institution, or technology that one needs.

   a one-stop shop for dispute processing

   • 2014 August 12, Tim Harford, “Monopoly is a bureaucrat’s friend but a democrat’s foe”, in Financial Times‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2020 October 20, US v. Google Complaint‎^[2]:

     General search engines are “one-stop shops” consumers can use to search the internet for answers to a wide range of queries.

Translations

the only place or institution one needs

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一門式 / 一门式 (yīménshì), 一站式 (yīzhànshì)

• Danish: rådgivningskontor n
• Finnish: palvelupiste
• French: bonne porte f, guichet unique (fr) m
• Georgian: უნივერსალური მაღაზია (universaluri maɣazia)
• German: Anlaufstelle (de) f
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: ventanilla única, tienda uniparada f

See also

• full service
• supermarket
• turnkey operation

Further reading

• one stop shop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia