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| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| birth control | |
| —n | |
| See also family planning limitation of child-bearing by means of contraception | |
birth control n.
Voluntary limitation or control of the number of children conceived, especially by planned use of contraceptive techniques.
| birth control
Planned interference with conception in order to control the number of offspring born. Birth control techniques include drugs containing hormones, the diaphragm, and the intrauterine device. |
The practice of preventing conception to limit the number of births. (See contraception, family planning, population control, and Margaret Sanger.)