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automat definition

auto·mat (ôt′ə mat′)

noun

a restaurant in which patrons get food from small compartments with doors that open when coins are put into slots

Etymology: Ger < Gr automatos: see automatic

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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