Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - contraceptive
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Contraceptive
contraceptive
(contraceptives) 1. A contraceptive method or device is a method or a device which a woman uses to prevent herself from becoming pregnant. It was at that time she started taking the contraceptive pill. ADJ: ADJ n 2. A contraceptive is a device or drug that prevents a woman from becoming pregnant. ...oral contraceptives... N-COUNT
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adj. & n. --adj. preventing pregnancy. --n. a contraceptive device or drug. CONTRACT n. & v. --n. 1 a written or spoken agreement between two or more parties, intended to be enforceable by law. 2 a document recording this. 3 marriage regarded as a binding commitment. 4 Bridge etc. an undertaking to win the number of tricks bid. --v. 1 tr. & intr. make or become smaller. 2 a intr. (usu. foll. by with) make a contract. b intr. (usu. foll. by for, or to + infin.) enter formally into a business or legal arrangement. c tr. (often foll. by out) arrange (work) to be done by contract. 3 tr. catch or develop (a disease). 4 tr. form or develop (a friendship, habit, etc.). 5 tr. enter into (marriage). 6 tr. incur (a debt etc.). 7 tr. shorten (a word) by combination or elision. 8 tr. draw (one's muscles, brow, etc.) together. Phrases and idioms contract bridge the most common form of bridge, in which only tricks bid and won count towards the game. contract in (or out) (also refl.) Brit. choose to be involved in (or withdraw or remain out of) a scheme or commitment. Derivatives contractive adj. Etymology: earlier as adj., = contracted: OF, f. L contractus (as COM-, trahere tract- draw) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n a drug, object, or method used to make it possible for a woman to have sex without having a baby (You can get free contraceptives from the family planning clinic.) - contraceptive adj only before noun (a contraceptive device) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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