PREPAID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prepaid mean? 

• PREPAID (adjective)
  The adjective PREPAID has 1 sense:

1. used especially of mail; paid in advance

  Familiarity information: PREPAID used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREPAID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used especially of mail; paid in advance

Synonyms:

postpaid; prepaid

Similar:

paid (marked by the reception of pay)

 Context examples 

Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; (3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; (4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and (5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided.

(Health Maintenance Organization, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)