birth control

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
birth control
    n 1: limiting the number of children born [syn: {birth control},
         {birth prevention}, {family planning}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
birth control \birth control\ n.
   the act or process of deliberately limiting the number of
   one's children born, especially by preventing conception.

   Note: Conception may be prevented by ingesting medicines,
         using barriers such as condoms or spermicides during
         copulation, or by ligating or removing the reproductive
         organs.

   Syn: birth prevention, family planning.
        [WordNet 1.5]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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