Usually means: Issue instructions for medication use.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word prescribe:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. prescribe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prescribe: Merriam-Webster
  3. prescribe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prescribe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prescribe: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prescribe: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prescribe, prescribe: Wordnik
  8. prescribe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. prescribe: Wiktionary
  10. prescribe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prescribe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prescribe: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. prescribe: Dictionary.com
  14. prescribe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Prescribe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. prescribe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. prescribe: Rhymezone
  18. prescribe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. prescribe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. prescribe: FreeDictionary.org
  21. prescribe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. prescribe: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. prescribe: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. prescribe: Legal dictionary
  4. prescribe: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prescribe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. prescribe: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. prescribe: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. prescribe: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (medicine) To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).
verb:  To specify by writing as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.
verb:  (law) To develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription).
verb:  (law) To become invalidated or unenforceable by prescription, to lapse

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