prescribe
/prɪˈskrɑɪb/ v [T] (GIVE RULE)Definition
› to tell someone what he or she must have or do, or to give as a rule: A secretary of education cannot and should not prescribe the curriculum of the nation’s colleges.
(Definition of prescribe v (GIVE RULE) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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