prescription
Definitions of prescription
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prescribed guide for conduct or actionsynonyms: règletypes:arrêté municipala rule adopted by an organization in order to regulate its own affairs and the behavior of its membersrèglementa body of rules followed by an assemblyprinciperule of personal conductétiquetterules governing socially acceptable behaviorinterpellation(parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policyordre permanenta rule of order permanently in forcelimitation de vitesse, limite de vitesseregulation establishing the top speed permitted on a given roadclôturea rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative bodytype of:
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