birth control

3 definitions found

birth control - 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]

birth control - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  birth control
      n 1: limiting the number of children born [syn: birth control,
           birth prevention, family planning]

birth control - 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