PRESCRIBE


Meaning of PRESCRIBE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ prɪskraɪb ]

( prescribes, prescribing, prescribed)

1.

If a doctor prescribes medicine or treatment for you, he or she tells you what medicine or treatment to have.

Our doctor diagnosed a throat infection and prescribed antibiotic and junior aspirin...

She took twice the prescribed dose of sleeping tablets...

The law allows doctors to prescribe contraception to the under 16s.

VERB : V n , V-ed , V n to n

2.

If a person or set of laws or rules prescribes an action or duty, they state that it must be carried out. ( FORMAL )

...article II of the constitution, which prescribes the method of electing a president...

Alliott told Singleton he was passing the sentence prescribed by law.

VERB : V n , V-ed

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