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prescribe English

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prescribe Verb

— If a doctor prescribes you a medicine or treatment, they tell you what medicine or treatment to use. The doctor will prescribe me some tablets.

prescribe

— verb (= order) issue commands or orders for

Synonyms prescribe synonyms

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prescribe English » English

order direct dictate command fix stipulate ordain appoint set instruct enjoin determine decree tell specify provide prescription designate define bid lay down lapse impose govern demand write too much summon stipulations specified saddle restrict restrain regulation recommend recast provisions pointing pilot pass oblige marking-out mandate limit legislate instruction indicatrix indicative indication indicating indicate

Topics prescribe topics

What do people use prescribe to talk about?
Person Healthy Treat disease

Medicine
Person Healthy

Treat disease
Social behavior Authority Exercise authority

Command
Social behavior Law

Pass laws

Conjugation prescribe conjugation

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prescribe · verb

Examples prescribe examples

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Simple sentences

I will prescribe a febrifuge to you.

Movie subtitles

I can prescribe anti-inflammatory medication.
Prescribe a change of scenery!
Prescribe them a liniment.
Well, I prescribe it, it'll do you good.
That's fine. I'll be right up and prescribe some preliminary treatment.
Would you like to prescribe a cure?
He'll prescribe for me.
My dear, darling Luz. if I didn't know you had a level Benedict head on those immature shoulders. I'd prescribe a good spanking.
Pretty soon, my patients. won't trust me to prescribe aspirin for them.
I prescribe a little sleep and, of course, some exercise.
What punishment do you prescribe?
You prescribe from the grave?
I prescribe the medicines!
I strongly prescribe it, Jim.
As your physician, I'd prescribe.
Well, I think I shall prescribe one licorice candy.
I'll be right in to prescribe preliminary treatment.
I'm gonna prescribe for you, Emiliano.
If you don't follow the diet I prescribe, I'll turn you in.
The Doc will prescribe the right medicine.
Try the new painkiller Nipsarin, the pill 9 out of 10 doctors prescribe, and get instant relief.
You could prescribe something to knock him out long enough for us to get down.
And as house physician, I prescribe a little entertainment.
I not only prescribe food, I bring it.
I only prescribe them as a last resort.
Maybe doctors can prescribe you a pill?
Who do you think I am that you can prescribe to me what I should eat?
I'm going to prescribe a mild sedative.
What did he prescribe?
What did you prescribe?
I'II prescribe something to bring down the fever.
You know that the rules prescribe a woollen sweater, with a collar.
As a psychological counselor, I prescribe a peculiar method of treatment that. involves having patients listen to alpha-wave music and sounds, in order to bring about mental stability.

News and current affairs

In this respect, economists are like doctors, who have to know what a healthy body looks like before they can diagnose disease and prescribe treatment.
To prescribe a cure, one must first diagnose the illness.
This is the system that the Commission wants to prescribe for the whole Union, while banning all SEPA-incompatible products.
It is relatively cheap, and it is easy for family practitioners, who treat the majority of depressed people, to prescribe.
Market failures or claims of unmet need are not sufficient to prescribe government intervention in the private economy, because the cure may be worse than the disease.
Some, for instance, prescribe budget deficits to stimulate the economy; others, remembering the Clinton Administration's claim that fiscal consolidation underpinned the US recovery in 1993, argue for deficit reduction.
Confusion about what cure to prescribe is caused in part by the fact that different medicines are suited for different problems, whereas much of the policy debate fails to distinguish among them adequately.
If it does, we have all the reason we need to retain it; but if it does not, don't we have as much power and as much right to change the arrangements under which we are governed as the framers had to prescribe them in the first place?
UN agencies such as the Commission on Narcotic Drugs or the Office on Drugs and Crime are not mandated to prescribe specific drug strategies.
But the financial-market turmoil fueled a panic among eurozone leaders, leading them to misdiagnose the malady and prescribe the wrong medicine, which has served only to generate new symptoms.
Moreover, the fiscal austerity they prescribe delays economic recovery.
Indeed, nearly all mainstream economists prescribe this approach for China.

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