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Meanings of prescriptive in English

Portuguese
normativo
Spanish
normativo

Pertaining to giving directives or rules.

normativo
Usage of prescriptive in English
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So, we will continue to set principles here without being overly prescriptive.
Reuters
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It doesn't work because people don't want this kind of prescriptive medicine.
Wired
3
Educational and prescriptive interventions resulted in decreased readmission rates and patient deterioration.
Pubmed
4
They have a prescriptive right to enter every garden in the village.
Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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The philosopher has no prescriptive right to preempt the field of ethics.
A Handbook of Ethical Theory
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That is how they have developed so fast, by being totally prescriptive.
The Guardian
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This prescriptive right was so generally recognised, that all parties were satisfied.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
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For example, their estates would become subject to Spain's more prescriptive inheritance laws.
Reuters
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Anthropologist Desmond Morris does not have much time for prescriptive 'how-to' child manuals.
The Irish Times
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But he said it was not his job to be prescriptive.
The Guardian
11
The rules to be released on Monday will be more specific and prescriptive.
Reuters
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In fact I've a kind of prescriptive right to the job.
The Man from the Clouds
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She has a prescriptive right to the society of the man who arrives.
American Notes
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He was too prescriptive, he didn't get the best out of his players.
The Guardian
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The progress of psychology toward the acquisition of prescriptive authority is critically reviewed.
Pubmed
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The most striking instance, however, is the acquisition of prescriptive rights.
The Common Law
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Translations for prescriptive
Portuguese
normativo
Spanish
normativo
Prescriptive through the time
Prescriptive across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common