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one-child policies

one-child policies is the plural of one-child policy.

Meaning of one-child policy

Noun

one-child policy (plural one-child policies)

  1. (historical) A policy of population control in China, whereby a married couple is allowed only one child.
    • At the same time, it glides over the personal traumas that the one-child policy must cause among innumerable Chinese. Certainly it is awesome to think of a nation that brings its powers of persuasion against a woman's right to conceive.1984 February 14, John Corry, “Birth Curb in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about one-child policies

What is one-child policies the plural of?
One-child policies is the plural of one-child policy.

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