full service

See also: full-service

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full service (uncountable)

  1. (radio) A radio format consisting of a mix of music with locally produced programming and segments focusing on local issues.
    WXYZ used to offer full service to listeners in the region, until it was bought out by a conglomerate and converted to become all corporate country and commercials, all the time.
  2. (business, often attributive) The ability to offer many types of related service rather than a limited set of specialisms.
    By offering everything that a publisher needs — including editing, proofreading, printing, binding, and distribution — Acme Corporation provides full service to the trade.
  3. (business, often attributive) Service that includes waiting on the customer.
    Antonym: self-service
    By pumping the gas, washing the windshield, checking the oil dipstick, and checking the tire pressure, old-fashioned service stations offered full service to the motorist.
  4. (sex, euphemistic) In prostitution, full sexual activity including penetration.
    Synonym: (initialism) FS
    • 2012, Maxim Jakubowski, The Best British Crime Omnibus:
      “What's within reason?” “Hand-job, blow-job, full sex — straight, full service. Greek, maybe, if you're not too big. Golden shower, if you like, but not reverse. No hardsports. And absolutely nothing without.”

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