Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

health maintenance organization

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English

Syllables: health -main-te-nance or-ga-ni-za-tion
IPA

49

Scrabble Score

29

Letters

8

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A medical insurance group that provides health services for a fixed annual fee.

American usage

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

health maintenance organizations (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

HMO PPO EPO

Synonyms

hmo

Questions

What does health maintenance organization mean?: A medical insurance group that provides health services for a fixed annual fee.

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