prescribe
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- (transitive) (medicine) If a doctor prescribes you a medicine or treatment, they tell you what medicine or treatment to use.
- (transitive) If someone prescribes a rule or a way to do something, they are telling people to follow that rule or do something a certain way.
- We have to follow what the law prescribes.