Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

overprescribe

Definition of overprescribe

verb

[with object]
  • prescribe (a drug or treatment) in greater amounts or on more occasions than necessary:doctors have been overprescribing antibiotics for decades

Derivatives

overprescription

Pronunciation: /-ˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n/
noun

overprescribe in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of overprescribe in the US English dictionary