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[ chahyld-bair-ing ] / ˈtʃaɪldˌbɛər ɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR childbearing ON THESAURUS.COM
nounthe act of producing or bringing forth children. adjectivecapable of, suitable for, or relating to the bearing of a child or of children: the childbearing years. Origin of childbearingA Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at child, bearing Words nearby childbearingChilcat, child, child abuse, child-abuse register, child-battering, childbearing, childbed, childbed fever, child benefit, childbirth, child bride Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for childbearingAs Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times points out, “workplaces could be seen as paying women to put off childbearing.” Don’t Be Fooled by Apple and Facebook, Egg Freezing Is Not a Benefit|Samantha Allen|October 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST The women in her family die young from childbearing and harsh living. Book Bag: Gritty Stories From the Real Montana|Carrie La Seur|October 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST Potential recruits are told their main role in the Islamic revolution will be through matrimony and childbearing, not martyrdom. The Bride of ISIS Revealed|Jamie Dettmer|September 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST The author assumes that pair bonds are not only always heterosexual, but always motivated by childbearing decisions. Junk Science: PMS Will Ruin Your Marriage|Kate Clancy|August 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Some 18 percent of married women have only one child by the end of their childbearing years, double what it was 30 years ago. America’s One-Child Policy|Brandy Zadrozny|July 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST It is most important that the childbearing wife and mother have a long period of rest between births. The women went to the limit in childbearing, and the burden of rearing their large families was awful. The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907|Daniel Davenport The world is turning round and over and back to that one previous historical era when the aversion to childbearing was widespread. The Women of Tomorrow|William Hard What was her flesh but for childbearing, her strength for her children and her husband, the giver of life? The Rainbow|D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence Having a harder time in childbearing means a slower convalescence, a need for more rest and care. The Nervous Housewife|Abraham Myerson
British Dictionary definitions for childbearing
noun- the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
- (as modifier)of child-bearing age
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to childbearingtravail, lying-in, accouchement, parturiency, birthing, pregnancy, childbirth, parturition, motherhood Medical definitions for childbearing
n.Pregnancy and parturition. Other words from childbearingchild′bear′ing adj.The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |