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health maintenance organization

health main·te·nance or·gan·i·za·tion
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [helth meyn-tuh-nuh ns awr-guh-nuh-zey-shuh n]
    • /hɛlθ ˈmeɪn tə nəns ˌɔr gə nəˈzeɪ ʃən/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [helth meyn-tuh-nuh ns awr-guh-nuh-zey-shuh n]
    • /hɛlθ ˈmeɪn tə nəns ˌɔr gə nəˈzeɪ ʃən/

Definitions of health maintenance organization words

  • noun health maintenance organization a plan for comprehensive health services, prepaid by an individual or by a company for its employees, that provides treatment, preventive care, and hospitalization to each participating member in a central health center. Abbreviation: HMO. 1
  • countable noun health maintenance organization A health maintenance organization is an organization to which you pay a fee and that allows you to use only doctors and hospitals which belong to the organization. The abbreviation HMO is often used. 0
  • noun health maintenance organization an organization that people pay to join so that they can have medical care when they need it 0
  • noun health maintenance organization HMO 0
  • noun health maintenance organization A health maintenance organization is an organization providing health care coverage in the U.S. that is carried out by hospitals, doctors, and other providers with which it has a contract. 0

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Origin of health maintenance organization

First appearance:

before 1970
One of the 2% newest English words
First recorded in 1970-75

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Parts of speech for Health maintenance organization

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

health maintenance organization popularity

This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 1% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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