birth control

What does birth control mean?

birth control means "limiting the number of children born".

What is another word for birth control?

Close synonyms include birth prevention, family planning. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is birth control a common word?

birth control is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for birth control come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.