Synonyms for prescription
prɪˈskrɪp ʃənpre·scrip·tion

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1. prescription

   Synonyms:
   direction, order, recipe, usage, custom

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1. prescriptionnoun

   directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions

   "I tried to follow her prescription for success"

   Synonyms:
   prescription drug, ethical drug, prescription medicine

2. prescription drug, prescription, prescription medicine, ethical drugnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   prescription drug, ethical drug, prescription medicine

3. prescriptionnoun

   written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person

   Synonyms:
   prescription drug, ethical drug, prescription medicine

4. prescriptionadjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   prescription drug, ethical drug, prescription medicine

5. prescription(a)adjective

   available only with a doctor's written prescription

   "a prescription drug"

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1. • Direction
   • Medicine
   • Written Communication

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1. prescriptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   custom, usage

2. prescriptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Med.) recipe

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1. List of paraphrases for "prescription":

   recipe, prescribing, order, requirement, limitation, prescribed, 'ordonnance, ordinance, recipes

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1. Diana Foster:

   We estimate that up to a third of women using withdrawal as their main method and one in six women using no method would use pills if they were available without a prescription.

2. Sean Patrick Maloney:

   We're capping seniors' out-of-pocket costs in the Medicare program. That's a big deal. So now, only two thouand dollars a year will come out-of-pocket, rain or shine, that allows seniors to budget. We're also negotiating, finally, in the Medicare program with the big prescription drug companies to lower the cost of everybody's prescription drugs. That's long overdue.

3. Susan Karol:

   We have seen a rise in both heroin use and prescription opioid use in Native American communities.

4. Lynn Julian Crisci:

   There are people who become addicted to prescription drugs and have overdosed, and that is undeniably tragic, but the solution is not, ‘Let’s take away everyone’s medication and punish you all.’ The solution should be addiction treatment, not punishing patients.

5. Harsh Patel:

   Pharmacists aren't allowed to administer Evusheld [without a prescription], so to send this many is ridiculous.