PRESCRIPTION


Meaning of PRESCRIPTION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ prɪskrɪpʃ(ə)n ]

( prescriptions)

1.

A prescription is the piece of paper on which your doctor writes an order for medicine and which you give to a chemist or pharmacist to get the medicine.

You will have to take your prescription to a chemist.

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2.

A prescription is a medicine which a doctor has told you to take.

The prescription Ackerman gave me isn’t doing any good.

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If a medicine is available on prescription , you can only get it from a chemist or pharmacist if a doctor gives you a prescription for it.

The drug is available on prescription only.

PHRASE : usu PHR after v

3.

A prescription is a proposal or a plan which gives ideas about how to solve a problem or improve a situation.

...the economic prescriptions of Ireland’s main political parties.

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