fertility rate
noun
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
fertiluhtihraytSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
fɚˈtɪlətɪˈɹeɪt
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
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Definition
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noun
The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she followed the current average pattern of fertility among a given group of women and survived through her reproductive years; used as an indicator of strength of population growth.
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
This meaning: The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she followed the current average pattern of fertility among a given group of women and survived through her reproductive years; used as an indicator of strength of population growth.
Used this way, fertility rate is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It turns up most in technical or specialist writing contexts.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Where it naturally appears
- Technical/specialist writing
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