family planning

What does family planning mean?

family planning means "limiting the number of children born".

What is another word for family planning?

Close synonyms include birth control, birth prevention. 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 family planning a common word?

family planning 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.

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