transcription, транскрипция: [ nɒstrəm ]
( nostrums)
1.
You can refer to ideas or theories about how something should be done as nostrums , especially when you think they are old-fashioned or wrong in some way. ( FORMAL )
...yesterday’s failed socialist nostrums.
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2.
If you refer to a medicine as a nostrum , you mean that it is not effective or has not been tested in a proper scientific way.
...pills, tablets, and other nostrums claiming to be magic potions.
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