Usually means: Orders for medication by doctors.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word prescriptions:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. prescriptions: Merriam-Webster
  2. prescriptions: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prescriptions: Vocabulary.com
  4. Prescriptions, prescriptions: Wordnik
  5. prescriptions: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prescriptions: Wiktionary
  7. prescriptions: Dictionary.com
  8. prescriptions: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Prescriptions: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Prescriptions: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. prescriptions: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Prescriptions: Legal dictionary
  3. Prescriptions: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prescriptions: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prescriptions: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Prescriptions: Medical dictionary

(Note: See prescription as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prescription)

noun:  (medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses.
noun:  (medicine) The medicine or treatment provided by such an order.
noun:  (figurative) Any plan of treatment or handling; the treatment or handling thus provided.
noun:  (law) Synonym of enactment, the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.
noun:  (linguistics) The act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use; an instance of this.
noun:  (law) An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.
noun:  (law) An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.
noun:  (obsolete) Synonym of self-restraint, limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.
adjective:  only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription (of a drug, etc.)
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