Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being a retail commercial enterprise or a service in which the customers or users help themselves.
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- noun the practice of serving oneself, usually when purchasing items
- adjective Describing an establishment where the customer is not
waited on.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or denoting an establishment (a restaurant or shop etc.) where customers serve themselves
- noun the practice of serving yourself (as in a grocery or cafeteria)
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Examples
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IVR telephone systems are part of the broader segment of the customer service industry called self-service, which includes any kind of customer help besides live human assistance.
Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us Emily Yellin 2009
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Large supermarket stores: at least 1,500 sq. meters of floor space with at least 50 percent of sales classified as "self-service."
unknown title 2011
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Even then, Page and Brin believed in a self-service system that worked in scale, serving vast populations.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Beyond low-cost copycats, the biggest challenge facing Brannock today is that many people buy shoes on the Internet or in self-service stores where getting fitted by an expert isn't an option.
Maker of Foot Measurer Tries to Stop Other Shoe From Dropping Timothy Aeppel 2011
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Google built a self-service system that allowed it to accommodate hundreds of thousands of advertisers.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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If you made the system self-service, you could handle thousands of small advertisers, and the overhead would be so low that customers could buy ads very cheaply.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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USA Technologies Inc., which provides payment systems for vending machines and other self-service kiosks, has stopped accepting MasterCard debit cards as a result of the law.
Debit-Fee Cap Has Nasty Side Effect Robin Sidel 2011
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As the program continued, Google opened up AdSense on June 21 to long-tail businesses such as blogs and small-business websites, using a self-service model.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Bike sharing systems are automated, self-service bicycle rental systems that allow people to rent bikes, usually for a short period of time.
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Jeff Dean pitched in to merge Phil with the AdWords technology, while another team tried to build all of this into a complete self-service system for advertisers.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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