capitation

Learned borrowing from Latin capitātiōnem, from caput (“head”).

• IPA^(key): /kapɪˈteɪʃən/

capitation (countable and uncountable, plural capitations)

1. Performing a headcount; the counting of people.
2. A poll tax.
3. A system of remuneration for providers of health care, in which providers enroll patients as permanent clients and receive a fixed periodic payment for each enrollee.
4. (India, euphemistic) A donation made to an educational institution to obtain admission.

• capitated

• antipatico

Learned borrowing from Latin capitātiōnem.

capitation f (plural capitations)

1. capitation (tax)
2. (medicine) capitation

• “capitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.