noun.
A payment or fee of a fixed amount per person, such as one remitted at regular intervals to a medical provider by a managed care organization for an enrolled patient.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
Numeration by the head; a numbering of persons, as the inhabitants of a city.
noun.
A tax or imposition upon each head or person; a poll-tax. Also called a capitation-tax.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A numbering of heads or individuals.
noun.
A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax.
noun.
Performing a headcount; the counting of people.
noun.
A polltax.
noun.
A system of remuneration for providers of health care, in which providers enrollpatients as permanent clients and receive a fixed periodic payment for each enrollee.
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noun.
a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person
Word Usage
"What makes this tax a poll tax/capitation is that it is a per head tax on every person in the land ($750) which is then adjusted on income."