Prescription

In general, the word prescriptive refers to refer to normative judgments, i.e. judgments about what is good or bad, such as:

• Prescriptive analytics, third and final phase of business analytics
• Linguistic prescriptivism, the laying down of normative language rules
• Prescriptive (normative) economics, branch of economics that incorporates value judgments
• Prescriptive ethics, as distinct from meta-ethics and descriptive ethics

Other uses include:

Health care

• Medical prescription, a plan of care written by a physician or other health care professional
  • Prescription drug, a drug available only if prescribed by a medical prescription
• Eyeglass prescription, written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist for individuals with eye related concerns.

Law

• Custom (law), a right enjoyed through long use
• Easement by prescription, acquisition of private property rights through uncontested use
• Prescription (sovereignty transfer), acquisition of sovereignty through uncontested use
• Period of prescription, in civil law jurisdictions, the time limit within which a lawsuit must be brought
• Prescribed sum, the maximum fine that may be imposed on summary conviction of certain offences in the United Kingdom
• Prescribed senior official, an individual who will be refused admission into Canada because of war crimes or crimes against humanity

Other uses

• Prescriptive barony, a "feudal" barony in Scotland
• Prescriptive notation, a type of Chinese musical notation

See also

• Prescription Act 1832, United Kingdom
• Proscription, word sometimes confused with prescription