"all-you-can-eat" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} all-you-can-eat (not comparable)
  1. (literally) Offering unlimited food to a diner at a restaurant for a fixed price for as long as he or she continues to eat. Tags: literally, not-comparable Categories (topical): Restaurants Translations (offering unlimited food to a diner at a restaurant): အဝစား (a.wa.ca:) (Burmese), syö niin paljon kuin jaksat (note: used as modifier for nouns) [phrase] (Finnish), à volonté (French), korlátlanfogyasztás (étel) (i) (Hungarian), korlátlanul/korlátlan mennyiségben fogyasztható (Hungarian), makan sepuasnya (Indonesian), 食べ放題 (Japanese), バイキング料理 (baikingu ryōri) (Japanese), バイキング (baikingu) (Japanese), rodzaj bufetu (Polish), libre (Spanish), tenedor libre [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-all-you-can-eat-en-adj-F0OdZhPg Disambiguation of Restaurants: 63 37 Disambiguation of 'offering unlimited food to a diner at a restaurant': 61 39
  2. (figuratively, by extension) Offering unlimited service for a fixed price per time period. Tags: broadly, figuratively, not-comparable Translations (offering unlimited service for a fixed price per time period): makan sepuasnya (Indonesian)
    Sense id: en-all-you-can-eat-en-adj-hH9GRfFE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 42 58 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 39 61 Disambiguation of 'offering unlimited service for a fixed price per time period': 21 79

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