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PBM

PBM is the initialism of pharmacy benefit manager.

PBM is the initialism of portable bitmap.

PBM is the initialism of play-by-mail.

Meaning of play-by-mail

Adjective

play-by-mail (not comparable)

  1. Describing a game that can be played in a turn-based fashion through postal mail or email.
    • Heimito Gerhardt, a fan of gaming by mail, presented Conrad and me with our own play-by-mail kits as he accompanied us to the bus station. It so happened that Heimito corresponded with Rex Douglas (one of Conrad's idols), the great American gamer and star writer for one of the most prestigious of...2011, Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer, The Third Reich, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 25
    Synonyms:
    PBM

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Forms of PBM

pluralPBMs

Words formed from PBM

Questions about PBM

What is PBM the initialism of?
PBM is the initialism of pharmacy benefit manager.

Words near PBM in the dictionary

  1. Pbit
  2. PBJ
  3. PBJs
  4. pbk
  5. PBL
  6. PBM
  7. PBMA
  8. PBMC
  9. PBMCs
  10. PBMer
  11. PBMers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PBM (page history and authors); play-by-mail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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