self-service
/ˈselfˈsɜr·vɪs/ adj [not gradable]Definition
› (of a business or machine) operated without employees to help you, so that you take items for yourself and then pay someone for whatever you have taken: a self-service gas station/cafeteria
(Definition of self-service adj from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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