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Pro-choice

Definition: Pro-choice

Pro-choice

Adjective

1. Advocating a woman's right to control her own body (especially her right to an induced abortion).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Antonym: pro-life (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Pro-choice

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Well, I'm sure he's pro-choice (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Pro-choice

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Periodicals

  

Music

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Usage Frequency: Pro-choice

"Pro-choice" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pro-choice" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Pro-choice

Language Translations for "pro-choice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏المناصر للإجهاض. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

赞成的选择. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

직업 택. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

o-choicepray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pro-choice

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-h-i-o-o-p-r"

-2 letters: choicer, choreic.

-3 letters: ceriph, chicer, choice, choric, cicero, cipher, coheir, cooper, copier, echoic, ephori, heroic, hooper, orphic.

-4 letters: cerci, ceric, chico, chiro, chirp, choir, chore, cooch, cooer, coper, cripe, croci, ephor, epoch, hoper, ichor, ocher, ochre, oorie, perch, pooch, poori, porch, price.

-5 letters: cero, chic, chip, chop, cire, coco, coho, coir, coop, cope, core.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-h-i-o-o-p-r"
 

+1 letter: pleochroic.

 

+2 letters: dichroscope, ectomorphic, ectotrophic.

 

+3 letters: dichroscopes.

 

+4 letters: choreographic, chromospheric, cochairperson, collectorship, oceanographic, photoelectric.

 

+5 letters: bronchoscopies, chemoreception, cochairpersons, collectorships, computerphobic, hyperconscious, psychoneurotic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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