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INFANT DEATHRATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The death rate during the first year of life
Synonyms:
infant deathrate; infant mortality; infant mortality rate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("infant deathrate" is a kind of...):
death rate; deathrate; fatality rate; mortality; mortality rate (the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year)