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say it: pruh-SKRIP-shuhn
prescription is a noun and adjective meaning "directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions". It carries 5 recorded senses.
directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions
“I tried to follow her prescription for success”
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”
written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person
written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient
available only with a doctor's written prescription
“a prescription drug”
medicine
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for prescription come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.