Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The human act or process of giving birth; parturition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing or producing children.
- noun The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process of
giving birth ;pregnancy andparturition - adjective Of, pertaining to, or suitable for
childbirth
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or suitable for childbirth
- noun the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child
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Examples
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The only way "society" can eliminate delays in childbearing is to cause delays in the re-election of our representatives in Washington who oppose eliminating them.
Letters 1995
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In Europe, where there are high levels of childbearing outside of marriage, when childbearing is not happening in marriage, it's happening in cohabitation.
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In contrast, spunky breeders underestimate the long-run benefits of progeny precisely because most of them occur well after childbearing is an option, such as creating people who will give a crap about you in 50 years.
Princess Mahalanobis: Blog Baby, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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"Our results indicate a sizeable response in childbearing among the group affected by the reform."
Archive 2008-12-01 Not a sheep 2008
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"Our results indicate a sizeable response in childbearing among the group affected by the reform."
Does Welfare Reform Affect Fertility? Not a sheep 2008
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I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing;
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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Assessments by qualified Sanctifiers as to the long-term childbearing goals of the couple in question.
Johnathan Wilber: An Open Letter to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 2009
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I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing;
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I freely admit that all purposeful childbearing is at least partially a selfish thing; no parent of either sex can pretend that there isn't some ego involved.
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I freely admit that all purposeful childbearing is at least partially a selfish thing; no parent of either sex can pretend that there isn't some ego involved.
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