prescription

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /prəˈskrɪpʃən/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pre‧scrip‧tion

Noun

Singular prescription

Plural prescriptions

A prescription during Prohibition in the United States which a doctor could use to prescribe liquor as medicine

1. (medicine) A written order, as by a physician, to tell which medicine to take and how many doses of it is needed.

   I got a prescription from my ear doctor for my medicine.

Related words

• prescribe

See also

• Rx
• scrip
• script