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English
Etymology
From self- + service.
Pronunciation
Noun
self-service (uncountable)
- (often attributive) The practice of serving oneself, usually when purchasing items.
- Antonym: full-service
- Hypernym: service
2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Wakefield Kirkgate”, in RAIL, number 948, page 29:On the opposite side of the concourse is the triple-counter ticket office and three self-service machines which are adjacent to a large customer service counter and the gateline.
Translations
the practice of serving oneself
- Arabic: خِدْمَة ذَاتِيَّة f (ḵidma(t) ḏātiyya)
- Belarusian: самаабслуго́ўванне n (samaabsluhóŭvannje)
- Bulgarian: самообслу́жване n (samoobslúžvane)
- Catalan: autoservei (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自助服務 / 自助服务 (zìzhù fúwù), 自助 (zh) (zìzhù), 自我服務 / 自我服务 (zìwǒ fúwù)
- Czech: samoobsluha (cs) f
- Danish: selvbetjening (da) c
- Dutch: zelfbediening (nl) f
- Finnish: itsepalvelu (fi)
- French: self-service (fr) m, libre-service (fr) m
- Galician: autoservizo (gl) m
- Georgian: თვითმომსახურება (tvitmomsaxureba)
- German: Selbstbedienung (de) f
- Greek: αυτοεξυπηρέτηση (el) f (aftoexypirétisi)
- Hungarian: önkiszolgálás (hu)
- Indonesian: swalayan (id)
- Irish: féinseirbhís f, féinfhreastal m
- Italian: autoservizio m, servisol m (Switzerland), fai da te m, tavola calda f, self-service (it) m
- Japanese: セルフサービス (ja) (serufu sābisu), セルフ (ja) (serufu)
- Korean: 셀프 서비스 (selpeu seobiseu), 셀프 (ko) (selpeu)
- Lithuanian: savitarna f
- Macedonian: самопослужување n (samoposlužuvanje)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: (adjective) selvbetjent
- Polish: samoobsługa (pl) f
- Portuguese: self-service (pt) m, autosserviço m, livre-serviço m
- Russian: самообслу́живание (ru) n (samoobslúživanije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: самопослужи́ва̄ње n
- Roman: samoposlužívānje (sh) n
- Slovak: samoobsluha f
- Spanish: autoservicio m, self-service m (selfservis)
- Swedish: självbetjäning (sv) c
- Ukrainian: самообслуго́вування n (samoobsluhóvuvannja), самообслу́га f (samoobslúha)
- Vietnamese: tự phục vụ
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References
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English self-service.
Pronunciation
Noun
self-service m (uncountable)
- self-service (the practice of serving oneself)
- Synonyms: autosserviço, livre-serviço
Further reading
- “self-service”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “self-service”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
- “self-service”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “self-service”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “self-service”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025