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    FAMILY PLANNING

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Limiting the number of children bornplay

    Synonyms:

    birth control; birth prevention; family planning

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

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withdrawal; withdrawal method (a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation)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