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FAMILY PLANNING

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Dictionary entry overview: What does family planning mean?

• FAMILY PLANNING (noun)
The noun FAMILY PLANNING has 1 sense:

1. limiting the number of children born

Familiarity information: FAMILY PLANNING used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FAMILY PLANNING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Limiting the number of children born

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

birth control; birth prevention; family planning

Hypernyms ("family planning" is a kind of...):

planning (an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "family planning"):

coitus interruptus; onanism; pulling out; withdrawal method (a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation)

natural family planning (any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs; coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle)

contraception; contraceptive method (birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery)

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FAMILY PLANNING: related words searches

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