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child-bearing

child-bearing is the alternative form of childbearing.

Meaning of childbearing

Noun

childbearing (usually uncountable, plural childbearings)

  1. (usually) The process of giving birth; pregnancy and parturition.
    • women of childbearing age

See all 3 meanings of childbearing

Forms of child-bearing

pluralchild-bearings

Questions about child-bearing

What is child-bearing the alternative form of?
Child-bearing is the alternative form of childbearing.

Words near child-bearing in the dictionary

  1. child's play
  2. child's pose
  3. child's poses
  4. child-abuser
  5. child-abusers
  6. child-bearing
  7. child-bearings
  8. child-bed
  9. child-beds
  10. child-birth
  11. child-births

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