[self-sur-vis] 
| 1. | the serving of oneself in a restaurant, shop, gas station, or other facility, without the aid of a waiter, clerk, attendant, etc. |
| 2. | noting or pertaining to a cafeteria, grocery, store, etc., designed for the patron or customer to gather food or merchandise from a display or display shelves without the aid of attendants and pay at a cashier's desk upon leaving. |
| 3. | of, for, or pertaining to something designed to be used or enjoyed without the aid of an attendant: self-service banking; self-service elevators. |
| self-ser·vice (sělf'sûr'vĭs) adj. Being a retail commercial enterprise or a service in which the customers or users help themselves: a self-service market; a self-service elevator. self'-ser'vice n. |