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Meaning of "overprescribe" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF OVERPRESCRIBE

ˌəʊvəprɪsˈkraɪb


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERPRESCRIBE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overprescribe is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb overprescribe in English.

WHAT DOES OVERPRESCRIBE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overprescribe in the English dictionary

The definition of overprescribe in the dictionary is to prescribe too much of.



CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO OVERPRESCRIBE

PRESENT

Present
I overprescribe
you overprescribe
he/she/it overprescribes
we overprescribe
you overprescribe
they overprescribe
Present continuous
I am overprescribing
you are overprescribing
he/she/it is overprescribing
we are overprescribing
you are overprescribing
they are overprescribing
Present perfect
I have overprescribed
you have overprescribed
he/she/it has overprescribed
we have overprescribed
you have overprescribed
they have overprescribed
Present perfect continuous
I have been overprescribing
you have been overprescribing
he/she/it has been overprescribing
we have been overprescribing
you have been overprescribing
they have been overprescribing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I overprescribed
you overprescribed
he/she/it overprescribed
we overprescribed
you overprescribed
they overprescribed
Past continuous
I was overprescribing
you were overprescribing
he/she/it was overprescribing
we were overprescribing
you were overprescribing
they were overprescribing
Past perfect
I had overprescribed
you had overprescribed
he/she/it had overprescribed
we had overprescribed
you had overprescribed
they had overprescribed
Past perfect continuous
I had been overprescribing
you had been overprescribing
he/she/it had been overprescribing
we had been overprescribing
you had been overprescribing
they had been overprescribing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will overprescribe
you will overprescribe
he/she/it will overprescribe
we will overprescribe
you will overprescribe
they will overprescribe
Future continuous
I will be overprescribing
you will be overprescribing
he/she/it will be overprescribing
we will be overprescribing
you will be overprescribing
they will be overprescribing
Future perfect
I will have overprescribed
you will have overprescribed
he/she/it will have overprescribed
we will have overprescribed
you will have overprescribed
they will have overprescribed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been overprescribing
you will have been overprescribing
he/she/it will have been overprescribing
we will have been overprescribing
you will have been overprescribing
they will have been overprescribing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would overprescribe
you would overprescribe
he/she/it would overprescribe
we would overprescribe
you would overprescribe
they would overprescribe
Conditional continuous
I would be overprescribing
you would be overprescribing
he/she/it would be overprescribing
we would be overprescribing
you would be overprescribing
they would be overprescribing
Conditional perfect
I would have overprescribe
you would have overprescribe
he/she/it would have overprescribe
we would have overprescribe
you would have overprescribe
they would have overprescribe
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been overprescribing
you would have been overprescribing
he/she/it would have been overprescribing
we would have been overprescribing
you would have been overprescribing
they would have been overprescribing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you overprescribe
we let´s overprescribe
you overprescribe
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to overprescribe
Past participle
overprescribed
Present Participle
overprescribing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERPRESCRIBE

ascribe · bribe · circumscribe · conscribe · describe · escribe · inscribe · interscribe · misdescribe · mistranscribe · oversubscribe · prescribe · proscribe · redescribe · scribe · subscribe · superscribe · transcribe · tribe · unsubscribe

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERPRESCRIBE

overpraise · overprecise · overpreparation · overprepare · overpress · overpressure · overprice · overpriced · overprint · overprivileged · overprize · overprocess · overproduce · overproduction · overprogram · overprogrammed · overprogramming · overpromise · overpromote · overproof

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERPRESCRIBE

ant tribe · caribe · gibe · imbibe · jibe · kibe · Namibe · outbribe · paedotribe · ribibe · sternotribe · subtribe · vibe

Synonyms and antonyms of overprescribe in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overprescribe» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF OVERPRESCRIBE

Find out the translation of overprescribe to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of overprescribe from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overprescribe» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

overprescribe
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

prescribir en exceso
570 millions of speakers
en

English

overprescribe
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

overprescribe
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يفرط في وصف الدواء
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

overprescribe
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

overprescribe
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

overprescribe
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

prescrire beaucoup de médicaments
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Overprescribe
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

overprescribe
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

overprescribe
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

overprescribe
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Overprescribe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

overprescribe
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

overprescribe
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

अधिकप्रतिबंधित करा
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

tarzlarını
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

overprescribe
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

overprescribe
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

overprescribe
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

overprescribe
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

overprescribe
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

overprescribe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

overprescribe
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overprescribe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overprescribe

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERPRESCRIBE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of overprescribe
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overprescribe

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERPRESCRIBE»

Discover the use of overprescribe in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overprescribe and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The New Political Economy of Pharmaceuticals: Production, ...
The share of pharmaceutical expenditure according to the different types of healthcare services, as depicted in Figure 3.3, supports the argument that implementation of TRIPS in China may have helped to reduce the incentive to overprescribe ...
Hans Löfgren, Owain David Williams, 2013
2
Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
DOCTORS. OVERPRESCRIBE. ANTIBIOTICS? Uncertainty of diagnosis and lack of confidence are two major reasons for irrational use of antibiotics. Faulty training of medical students, lack ofeifective continued medical education and poor ...
A. Parthasarathy, 2013
3
Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs: How Surgery Can Be ...
Provocatively written and radical in its approach, Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs challenges readers to rethink everything they believe about illness and how to treat it. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Harvey Bigelsen, M.D., 2011
4
The New Behaviorism: Second Edition
In the high-cost areas, the “other factors” drive doctors to overprescribe. Gawande quotes a study34 that surveyed some eight hundred primary-care physicians from high-cost cities (such as Las Vegas and New York), low-cost cities (such as ...
John Staddon, 2014
5
The Therapeutic Nightmare: The Battle Over the World's Most ...
An obvious medical danger is that doctors may 'overprescribe' and 'overdiagnose ' - that is, they may prescribe tranquillizers for patients who do not need them and/ or prescribe too many too often for patients who may sometimes be in need of ...
John Abraham, Julie Sheppard, 2014
6
Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael ...
He did not overprescribe, the doctor insisted, to Michael Jackson or anyone else. His friend and patient Marc Schaffel defended this claim as true. “When people go into Arnie's office, he's completely different than he is when they're in his home  ...
Randall Sullivan, 2012
7
Scrubbed Out: Reviving the Doctor's Role in Patient Care
Insurers are unhappy with surgeons who over-operate and with physicians who overprescribe new and expensive medications, especially antibiotics. Doctors' incomes are decreasing, while their expenses keep growing, and as a result some ...
Salah D Salman M D, 2011
8
Drugs and Crime
Council will discipline members who overprescribe, selfmedicate with substances such as morphine, or have an alcohol problem. Where those physicians prescribe for themselves or their families, or overprescribe for theirpatients, theymaybe ...
Philip Bean, 2014
9
The Oxford Handbook of Depression and Comorbidity
Evidence suggests that primary care providers overprescribe medication for individuals with subthreshold symptomatology, with few Table 32.2 Key Advantages of Home- and Community-Based Models • Overcome barriers to traditional care ...
C. Steven Richards, Michael W. O'Hara, 2014
10
Dictionary of Medical Terms
... /???v??læp/ verb (of bandages, etc.) to lie partly on top of another (NOTE: overlapping – overlapped) overprescribe /??v?pr??skra?b/ verb to issue too many prescriptions for something Some doctors seriously overprescribe tranquillisers.
A & C Black Publishers Ltd, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERPRESCRIBE»

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Senate hearing features familiar tensions between innovation and …
“Policies that overprescribe stand to squelch innovation. Policies that are too lax will either get it wrong on the technical side (on issues such as ... «Inside Higher Ed, Jul 15»
2
Egypt's ailing health care system
With little incentive, clinicians are more likely to misdiagnose or overprescribe to help feed their families. There is also a derth of coverage. «Al-Monitor, Jul 15»
3
Bion Could Help Nip Antibiotic Resistance at the Source
... with the misuse of antibiotics by humans, including cases where patients don't take the full dosage and/or doctors overprescribe the drugs. «SECFilings.com, Jul 15»
4
Patient fees drive antibiotic resistance
They often find these in private facilities that may overprescribe medicines and where they may also be of poorer quality, the paper says. «SciDev.Net, Jul 15»
5
Approach addiction like a Granite State
Doctors who overprescribe opioids represent the headwaters of the addiction epidemic, and pharmaceutical companies are the storm clouds ... «Nashua Telegraph, Jul 15»
6
Heroin 'more common, diverse than ever in past'
So they overprescribe pain medications such as OxyContin and Vicodin. Patients get hooked on the pain pills and then they turn to heroin ... «KOIN.com, Jul 15»
7
Drug discount program may lead hospitals to overprescribe - report
A U.S. watchdog agency has found that hospitals taking part in a federal drug discount program may be motivated by a financial incentive to ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
8
Opinion: Make pain pills harder to abuse
While a few unethical providers overprescribe opioids, many conscientious physicians hesitate to prescribe prescription painkillers because of ... «Cincinnati.com, Jul 15»
9
Our View: Opioid Working Group gets it right
But the thrust of the Working Group's prevention efforts is on stopping physicians who overprescribe painkillers: “If you go to get a wisdom tooth ... «Wicked Local North Attleborough, Jul 15»
10
NHL Head Injury Suit Falls Outside Players' CBA, Judge Told
... it owed to Boogaard were those that were collectively bargained for and that team doctors owed him a duty not to overprescribe medication. «Law360, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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