INFANT MORTALITY RATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infant mortality rate mean? 

• INFANT MORTALITY RATE (noun)
  The noun INFANT MORTALITY RATE has 1 sense:

1. the death rate during the first year of life

  Familiarity information: INFANT MORTALITY RATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFANT MORTALITY RATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The death rate during the first year of life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

infant deathrate; infant mortality; infant mortality rate

Hypernyms ("infant mortality rate" 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)