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Meanings of prescriptive in inglês

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Pertaining to giving directives or rules.

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      Usage of prescriptive in inglês
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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
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      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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      Prescriptive across language varieties
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