All 3 Uses of
prescribe
in
Fast Food Nation
- After getting stitches and a strong prescription painkiller, he was driven back to the slaughterhouse and put back on the production line.†
p. 187.1 *prescription = a recommendation or requirement OR (from a medical doctor) an instruction -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
- Harding was sent home with a prescription for an antibiotic.†
p. 193.7
- The nation's other leading food safety agency, the FDA, spends much of its budget regulating prescription drugs.†
p. 264.3
Definition:
to recommend or require what should be done
or more specifically:
of a medical doctor: to give medical instructions -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
or more specifically:
of a medical doctor: to give medical instructions -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics