drive-thru

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drive-through

or drive-thru (drīv′thro͞o′)

adj.

1. Relating to or conducting exchanges with clients who drive up to a window and remain in their vehicles: drive-thru banking.

2. drive-through Performed or provided quickly and routinely: a drive-through delivery in a hospital.

1. A drive-through establishment, especially a restaurant.

2. A window at such an establishment, from which business is conducted.

3. The lane by which drivers approach such a window and drive away after being served: decided to go through the drive-through rather than eating inside.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

drive-thru

1. (Commerce)

a. a takeaway restaurant, bank, etc designed so that customers can use it without leaving their cars

b. (as modifier): a drive-thru restaurant.

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