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contraceptive

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1. contraceptive - Noun

2. contraceptive - Adjective

3. contraceptive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

an agent or device intended to prevent conception

capable of preventing conception or impregnation

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I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil. Uri Geller

Birth control - individual choice, safe contraceptive methods, as well as abortions when necessary - is a fundamental prerequisite for the emancipation of women. Angela Davis

... leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods ... express a preference for "natural" methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation. Richard Dawkins

Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive. Henry Way Kendall

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own. Louise Slaughter

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently. Margaret Chase Smith

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