Definition of "population control" []

• A government program to limit or slow population growth, as by birth control education, the wide availability of contraceptives, and economic incentives. (noun)

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• "The burning need for population control immediately after the change, coupled with the collapse of all but pseudolife technology, had restored a decidedly Victorian behavior code, with much less hypocrisy than had characterized that age."