one-stop shop

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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.

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