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subreplacement en · ADJ

Etymology

From sub- + replacement.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a birth rate) Below the level needed to maintain the current population.
    • The other is the fact that the population of Japan has begun to shrink, the result of years of subreplacement birth rates. 2011, James W. White, Mirrors of Memory: Culture, Politics, and Time in Paris and Tokyo, University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, page 219: