one-stop shop

English

Noun

one-stop shop (plural one-stop shops)

  1. (informal) A single place, institution, service, website, technology, etc., that provides everything necessary.
    a one-stop shop for dispute processing
    • 1948 April 8, The Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, page 5, column 6:
      Smartly Styled Winter Outdoor Wear for Men and Boys. Make LUCAS' your one-stop-shop. You get all you need there !
    • 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.
    • 2025 March 5, Richard Wilcock, “DfT sets out its plans with rail reform consultation”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 28:
      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.

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