overprescribe
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overprescribe (third-person singular simple present overprescribes, present participle overprescribing, simple past and past participle overprescribed)
- (transitive) To prescribe (a drug) more frequently than appropriate.
- Antonym: underprescribe
- 2007 May 9, The Associated Press, “Painkiller’s Maker Settles Complaint”, in New York Times[1]:
- The drug maker Purdue Pharma has agreed […] to settle complaints that it encouraged physicians to overprescribe its painkiller OxyContin.