automat
noun/ˈɔːtəmæt/
/ˈɔːtəmæt/
(US English)- (in the past) a restaurant in which food and drink were bought from machinesWord Originlate 17th cent. (denoting an automaton): from German, from French automate, from Latin automaton from Greek, neuter of automatos ‘acting of itself’, from autos ‘self’. The current sense dates from the early 20th cent.
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