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birth control
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun birth control has 1 sense
- birth control(n = noun.act) birth prevention, family planning - limiting the number of children born; Array has particulars: coitus interruptus, onanism, pulling out, withdrawal, withdrawal method, natural family planning, contraception, contraceptive method
is a kind of planning
CIDE DICTIONARY
birth control, n.
the act or process of deliberately limiting the number of one's children born, especially by preventing conception.
"Conception may be prevented by ingesting medicines, using barriers such as condoms or spermicides during copulation, or by ligating or removing the reproductive organs."
[WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
birth control
aridity, barrenness, contraception, dearth, dry womb, dryness, family planning, famine, impotence, ineffectualness, infecundity, infertility, planned parenthood, rhythm method, sterileness, sterility, the pill, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, unproductiveness, vasectomy, withered loins
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