prescription+(noun)

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• prescription — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ medical ▪ free ▪ You are entitled to free prescriptions. ▪ repeat (BrE) ▪ I just get a repeat prescription every month …   Collocations dictionary

• prescription — ► NOUN 1) an instruction written by a medical practitioner authorizing a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment. 2) the action of prescribing. 3) an authoritative recommendation or ruling. 4) (also positive prescription) Law the… …   English terms dictionary

• prescription — pre·scrip·tion /pri skrip shən/ n [partly from Middle French prescription establishment of a claim, from Late Latin praescription praescriptio, from Latin, act of writing at the beginning, order, from praescribere to write at the beginning,… …   Law dictionary

• prescription drug — noun a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly • Syn: ↑prescription, ↑prescription medicine, ↑ethical drug • Ant: ↑over… …   Useful english dictionary

• prescription drug — ➔ drug * * * prescription drug UK US noun [C] ► a medicine that is only available with a doctor s prescription (= written instruction): »Government assistance with money for prescription drugs is already in the works …   Financial and business terms

• prescription — UK US /prɪˈskrɪpʃən/ noun [C] ► a doctor s written instruction for the medicine that someone needs and for how it should be used: »These drugs are only available on prescription. »The doctor wrote him a prescription for two tablets, 100 mg each… …   Financial and business terms

• prescription — noun 1 (C) a piece of paper on which a doctor writes what medicine a sick person should have, so that they can get it from a pharmacist 2 (C) a particular medicine or treatment ordered by a doctor for a sick person: Prescriptions used to be free… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• prescription medicine — noun a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly • Syn: ↑prescription drug, ↑prescription, ↑ethical drug • Ant: ↑over the… …   Useful english dictionary

• prescription — noun 1) the doctor wrote a prescription Syn: instruction, authorization; informal scrip; archaic recipe 2) he fetched the prescription from the drug store Syn: medicine, drugs, medication 3) a painless prescription for improvement Syn …   Thesaurus of popular words

• prescription charge — [prescription charge] noun [usu pl] (in Britain) money paid (usually to a ↑chemist) for medicine supplied on the ↑National Health Service. The amount paid is the same for any medicine, and is usually less than its actual cost. Some groups, e.g.… …   Useful english dictionary

• prescription — noun Etymology: partly from Middle English prescripcion establishment of a claim, from Anglo French, from Late Latin praescription , praescriptio, from Latin, act of writing at the beginning, order, limitation of subject matter, from… …   New Collegiate Dictionary