: permitting or offering self-service
self-serve gas
a self-serve farm stand
These hotels are surprisingly good—with fresh beds, flat-panel TVs, self-serve breakfast buffets and free wireless broadband.Rich Kalgaard

Examples of self-serve in a Sentence

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The chain will also bring back self-serve sugar and milk stations, which left stores during the pandemic in 2020, in another attempt to restore the coffeehouse feeling. Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024 Starbucks also plans to bring back self-serve condiment coffee bars in all of its cafes by early 2025. Kate Gibson, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2024 Virtue Coffee will be toward the front of the business and offer a self-serve creamer and water station with seating for 31 coffee connoisseurs. Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024 Often this can be done at home or at self-serve dog-washing stations at pet stores. Lisa Bloch, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for self-serve 

Word History

First Known Use

1910, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of self-serve was in 1910

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“Self-serve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-serve. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

self-serve

adjective
ˈself-ˈsərv
: permitting self-service
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