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Prescription

prɪˈskrɪpʃn

Prescription definitions
noun
prescription prescriptions
  1. an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment

    "he scribbled a prescription for tranquillizers"

    • the action of prescribing a medicine or treatment

      "the unnecessary prescription of antibiotics"

    • a medicine or remedy that is prescribed

      "I've got to pick up my prescription from the chemist's"

  2. a recommendation that is authoritatively put forward

    "effective prescriptions for sustaining rural communities"

    • the authoritative recommendation of an action or procedure

      "rather than prescription there would be guidance"

  3. the establishment of a claim founded on the basis of a long or indefinite period of uninterrupted use or of long-standing custom