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☆ birth control

  1. control of the number and frequency of children born, specif. through the control of conception; contraception
  2. a device or method used to prevent conception

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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