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单词 self-serve
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self-serveadj.n.

Brit. /ˌsɛlfˈsəːv/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈsərv/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: self- prefix, serve v.1
Etymology: < self- prefix + serve v.1 Compare slightly later self-service n. 2, self-service adj.
Originally and chiefly North American.
A. adj. (chiefly attributive).
1. Designating a shop, restaurant, petrol station, etc., in which customers serve themselves, rather than being attended to by a member of staff. Also designating a facility such as a launderette, in which customers carry out a particular service themselves. Cf. self-service adj. 2a, 2b.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [adjective] > relating to shop > types of shop
high streetc1600
co-op1872
multiple1903
fixed price1907
serve-self1909
serve-yourself1909
quick-service1910
self-serve1910
self-service1912
drive-through1918
Army and Navy1919
drive-in1930
one-stop1933
Army-Navy1934
full-service1934
mom-and-pop1942
walkround1950
ma-and-pa1965
pop-up1993
1910 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Evening Gaz. 14 Nov. 12/6 It's woman's wants that have created the two-ounce package of smoking for a nickel, the self-serve eating house and the 49-cent shirt.
1939 Van Wert (Ohio) Times-Bull. 20 Nov. 1/2 The cafeteria..offered low cost food through cutting of overhead by the fact that it was self-serve.
1961 Financial Times 24 Oct. 16/3 (advt.) Frigidaire coin-operated self-serve laundry shops.
1981 Univ. Coll. London Bull. Dec. 4/2 Self-serve counters would replace the current type.
2007 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 9 Dec. (Metro section) 1 There was..a strip of all the usual fast-food places, drugstores and self-serve gas stations that ran parallel to the interstate.
2. Designating goods sold by a self-serve shop, restaurant, etc. (see sense A. 1). Cf. self-service adj. 3.
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > [adjective] > types of goods
homemade1565
consumable1692
in nature1719
inconsumable1785
soft1833
tenderable1868
orderable1872
self-serve1918
offshore1947
house-made1972
1918 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 8 Oct. 6/5 (advt.) An unusual quality skirt—in a very excellent style... One of the many self serve bargains at each $7.77.
1966 Economist 1 Oct. 2/3 Why not take advantage of the growing market for prepacked, self-serve foods?
1980 State Competition in Gasoline Marketing (U.S. Dept. Energy) III. 79 I am forced to market my self-serve gasoline at the price of other self-serve outlets in town.
2004 M. M. Bell et al. Farming for us All viii. 201 I stopped in the last town for self-serve coffee and a homemade doughnut.
B. n.
1. A commercial establishment, esp. a petrol station, in which customers serve themselves, rather than being attended to by a member of staff. Cf. self-service n. 2b.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > other retail establishments
parlour1863
self-serve1918
while-you-wait1929
self-service1944
1918 Sunday Morning Decatur (Illinois) Rev. 11 Aug. 11/1 (advt.) It is your patriotic duty to eat at a ‘self serve’ where the number of employees is reduced to the minimum.
1951 R. Cassady & W. L. Jones Nature of Competition in Gasoline Distribution x. 153 The self-serves cannot reduce prices from their present level because their costs will not justify any reductions.
1978 Pop. Mech. Aug. 144/3 Price per gallon of good 'ol No. 2 ranged from a low of 50.9 cents at a self-serve in Tyler, Tex., to 64.9 cents in New Orleans.
2005 V. Grant Quid Pro Quo xlii. 147 The gas tank thing kept binging, till about twenty clicks down the road he finally gave in and pulled up at a self-serve.
2. The system used esp. in a shop, restaurant, etc., by which customers serve themselves, instead of being attended to by a member of staff. Cf. self-service n. 2a.
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society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > shopping > shopping by specific method
home shopping1874
mail order1906
self-service1913
self-serve1919
comparison shopping1921
teleshopping1944
full-service1978
online shopping1982
1919 Business Digest & Investm. Weekly 6 May 571/3 The idea of self-serve is incorporated to a certain extent, the people helping themselves and merely passing along the proper amount of money to pay for the goods obtained.
1939 Jefferson (Iowa) Herald 2 Nov. 1/8 Fixtures have been changed to adapt the store to self-serve and everything is in readiness.
1974 Brandon (Manitoba) Sun 11 Sept. 22/3 A marginal operation can be revitalized almost overnight by converting to self-serve.
1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways x. i. 403 The age of self-serve.
2012 D. S. Kennedy & C. Kessler No B.S. Guide to Marketing to Leading Edge Boomers & Seniors xix. 178 The erasure of service and shift to self-serve was a gradual process that began with the first serve-yourself grocery store chain.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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