population control
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- noun
- /ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən kənˈtroʊl/
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control de la población
- Once enough people get on board with the "voluntary" population control measures, they will become "mandatory."
A lot of big UPS talking about population control.
- A lot of big UPS talking about population control.
- Not the trails left by airplanes are not just condensation, but chemicals sprayed for mind control, population control or weather manipulation.
- Population control is social engineering and, and it's most literal form the blacks that are under population control.
- And then all these people started saying he's behind the virus population control and so many people seem to think he's the Antichrist.
Examples
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Granted, Beijing has imposed strict population control on its own people.
Academic text (2011) -
Effective with data for November 2017, estimates for veterans incorporate population controls derived from an updated Department of Veterans Affairs population model.
Academic text (2018) -
Meanwhile, public resistance to the emergency population control bill continues to grow.
Fiction book (1990) -
Most parents in China of primary school age children have only one child because of government population control regulations.
Academic text (1997) -
Do the people there need training in modern agricultural techniques or population control measures?
Academic text (1994) -
" Costa Rica," Hammond said, "has better population control than other countries in Central America.
Fiction book (1990) -
Liberal policies have achieved similar results in service to population control, although the totals are not additive.
Blog text (13) -
Many countries have implemented population control policies to manage their resources effectively.
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The government introduced population control measures to address the overpopulation crisis.
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Advocates argue that effective population control can improve living standards in developing nations.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'population control' — managing or limiting a population — is directly and compositionally derived from 'population' (a group of individuals) + 'control' (management/mechanism). This composition is cross-linguistically common and remains understandable even when applied metaphorically to algorithmic 'populations', so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Population control comes from the simple image of keeping a group at a certain size, like a farmer who limits his herd or a town that plans how many people can live there. That's why it means 'to manage or limit the size of a population'.