(prescriptions)
1.
A prescription is the piece of paper on which your doctor writes an order for medicine and which you give to a chemist or pharmacist to get the medicine.
You will have to take your prescription to a chemist.
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A prescription is a medicine which a doctor has told you to take.
The prescription Ackerman gave me isn't doing any good.
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If a medicine is available on prescription, you can only get it from a chemist or pharmacist if a doctor gives you a prescription for it.
The drug is available on prescription only.
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3.
A prescription is a proposal or a plan which gives ideas about how to solve a problem or improve a situation.
...the economic prescriptions of Ireland's main political parties.
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