Usually means: Order for medication by doctor.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word prescription:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. prescription: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prescription: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prescription: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prescription: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prescription: Vocabulary.com
  6. prescription: Wordnik
  7. prescription: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prescription: Wiktionary
  9. prescription: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prescription: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prescription: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. prescription: Dictionary.com
  13. prescription: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prescription: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Prescription (linguistics), Prescription (sovereignty transfer), Prescription: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prescription: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prescription: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prescription: Rhymezone
  19. prescription, prescription (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prescription: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prescription: Free Dictionary
  22. prescription: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prescription: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. prescription: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. prescription: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. prescription: Legal dictionary
  9. prescription: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prescription: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Prescription: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. prescription: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. prescription: Medical dictionary
  6. Prescription: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prescription: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. prescription: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Prescription: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. prescription: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses.
noun:  (medicine) The medicine or treatment provided by such an order.
noun:  (figurative) Any plan of treatment or handling; the treatment or handling thus provided.
noun:  (law) Synonym of enactment, the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.
noun:  (linguistics) The act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use; an instance of this.
noun:  (law) An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.
noun:  (law) An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.
noun:  (obsolete) Synonym of self-restraint, limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.
adjective:  only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription (of a drug, etc.)

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