Prescription

  Reference/Meaning Formula
#1 A rule used to ensure that all know and follow certain behaviours strictly as specified.
Syn: instruction, requirement, protocol, directive.
PH"6-L1
#2 A rule, determined by community leaders, which constrains people to act in certain ways and permits the application of direct social control or impersonal command. sPH"6-G11
#3 The characteristic rule of formal etiquette. PH"4-L1

 

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Last updated: 15-Jan-2014