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prescription [ pre·scrip·tion ]
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1. An instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment.
the lotion is available on prescription
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2. The action of prescribing a medicine or treatment.
the unnecessary prescription of antibiotics
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3. A medicine or remedy that is prescribed.
I've got to pick up my prescription from the chemist's
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4. A recommendation that is authoritatively put forward.
Is the Human Development Report's prescription convincing?
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5. The authoritative recommendation of an action or procedure.
rather than prescription there would be guidance
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6. The establishment of a claim founded on the basis of a long or indefinite period of uninterrupted use or of long-standing custom.
The evidence required to establish title by prescription will vary with the nature of the user.
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1. Late Middle English (as a legal term): via Old French from Latin praescriptio(n-), from the verb praescribere (see prescribe). prescription (sense 1) dates from the late 16th century.
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