birth prevention

1. 1.

   limiting the number of children born

   Synonymsbirth controlfamily planning

   Broaderplanning

   Narrowercoitus interruptusnatural family planningcontraception

Questions about birth prevention

What does birth prevention mean?

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

What is another word for birth prevention?

Close synonyms include birth control, 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 prevention a common word?

birth prevention is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.