population control

1. 1.

   control over the growth of population; a government program

   Broadersocial control

Questions about population control

What does population control mean?

population control means "control over the growth of population; a government program".

Is population control a common word?

population control 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.