HMO

See also: ḥmo

English

Noun

HMO (plural HMOs)

1. (US, medicine) Initialism of health maintenance organization.

   Coordinate term: PPO

   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 325:

     By the mid-1990s, seven states required HMOs to pay for bone marrow transplantation.

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

Anagrams

• MOH, mho, moh, ohm