prescribe
verb (used with object)
to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
prescriber
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a word derived from
prescribe.
Example Sentences
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“Let a prescriber use her medical judgment to treat a patient.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
Are the potential effects of that a risk the prescriber and patient are willing to take on?
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2026
Over the last decade and a half, the critic’s role has evolved from that of an arbiter to a kind of prescriber.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026
"We have patients going to GPs and A&E basically because they are lonely," says Christine Francis, who is employed as a 'social prescriber'.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025
An experienced homeopathic prescriber would no more doubt it than he would doubt the Law of Gravitation.
From Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr
