antipill
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antipill (comparative more antipill, superlative most antipill)
- (not comparable) Preventing or countering the formation of pills on fabric.
- Opposing the contraceptive pill.
- 1998, The Journal of Japanese Studies, volume 24:
- This antipill lobbying technique is epitomized by a July 1964 meeting between the Oral Contraception Committee of the FPFJ and representatives from MHW's Drug Bureau and the drug shingikai.
- (finance) Opposing a poison pill.
- 2000, James P. Hawley, Andrew T. Williams, The rise of fiduciary capitalism, page 63:
- In fact, the 1997 proposal was a binding bylaw amendment prompted by Fleming's refusal to redeem its poison pill despite a 65 percent antipill vote the previous year.