Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hmo

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.62 in modern English

Syllables: hmo
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Initialism of health maintenance organization.

American usage

noun

Initialism of home/house in/of multiple occupation/occupancy: a rented house typically let as individual rooms, often to students or migrant workers.

British usage

noun

Initialism of hear me out.

Example Sentences

"It's a real problem because HMOs do not deal with chronic pain — they want to just deal with crises."
"By the mid-1990s, seven states required HMOs to pay for bone marrow transplantation."

Usage

American usage
British usage

Inflected Forms

HMOs (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

PPO EPO

Synonyms

health maintenance organization

Questions

What does hmo mean?: Initialism of health maintenance organization.

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