prescribes
- 1Third-person singular simple present of prescribe.
The physician prescribes antibiotics only when a bacterial infection is confirmed.
Company policy prescribes a strict procedure for handling customer complaints.
Note
The legal uses travel alongside the medical and the rule-giving ones. In law, a party who prescribes is asserting or developing a right by prescription. A claim that has become invalid or unenforceable is also said to prescribe, with no object at all. That intransitive use is easy to miss: the physician prescribes antibiotics, but a lapsed claim simply prescribes.
prescribes is a form of prescribe
prescribe, verb: To order a drug or medical device for a particular patient, acting under licensed medical authority. Full entry
- Forms
- prescribeprescribes he/she/itprescribing -ing formprescribed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- prescribe → prescribes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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