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multipayer

multipayer adjective: involving payment by more than one party.

Adjective

multipayer (not comparable)

  1. Involving payment by more than one party.
    • Single-payer systems tend to rely heavily on general tax revenues, whereas multipayer systems generally employ payroll-tax financing.2004, Martin A. Levin, Martin M. Shapiro, Transatlantic policymaking in an age of austerity: diversity and drift, page 17
    Antonyms:
    single-payer

Antonyms of multipayer

Forms of multipayer

alternative formmulti-payer

Origin of multipayer

From multi- + payer.

Questions about multipayer

What does multipayer mean?
Multipayer means involving payment by more than one party.
What part of speech is multipayer?
Multipayer is an adjective.

Words near multipayer in the dictionary

  1. multipathological
  2. multipaths
  3. multipathway
  4. multipattern
  5. multipatterned
  6. multipayer
  7. multipayload
  8. multipayment
  9. multipeak
  10. multipeaked
  11. multipeakon

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