"HMO" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: HMOs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} HMO (plural HMOs)
  1. (US, medicine) Initialism of health maintenance organization. Tags: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: health maintenance organization Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-HMO-en-noun-uz9Pq9jb Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 66 34 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 67 33 Topics: medicine, sciences
  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. Tags: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: home/house in/of multiple occupation/occupancy (extra: a rented house typically let as individual rooms, often to students or migrant workers)
    Sense id: en-HMO-en-noun-cRJAUZ3r Categories (other): British English

Inflected forms

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