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, prescription

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. Deepa Camenga:

   We know this is happening in colleges. A major takeaway of the new study is that misuse and sharing of stimulant prescription medications is happening in middle and high schools, not just college.

2. Benjamin Disraeli:

   Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

3. President Barack Obama:

   I hope we can work together this year on some bipartisan priorities like criminal justice reform and helping people who are battling prescription drug abuse and heroin abuse. So who knows? We might surprise the cynics again.

4. Christopher Jones:

   Initially when synthetic opioids showed up in the Christopher Jones, it was largely mixed with heroin. But now we're seeing it mixed with cocaine, methamphetamines and other substances of abuse. And in the last couple of years we've seen this proliferation of counterfeit tablets that are made to look like commonly abused prescription drugs, and that's particularly concerning because people who are not regularly exposed to opioids are going to be at an increased risk of the respiratory depressant effects of opioids because they have no tolerance.

5. Said Trump:

   Today my administration is launching the most sweeping action in history to lower the price of prescription drugs for the American people.