prescriptiveadjective
uk/prɪˈskrɪp.tɪv/us/prɪˈskrɪp.tɪv/formal mainly disapprovingsaying exactly what must happen, especially by giving an instruction or making a rule:
Most teachers think the government's guidelines on homework are too prescriptive.
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Giving orders & commands
- all-points bulletin
- boss
- bossyboots
- chain of command
- charge
- crack the whip idiom
- defy
- demand
- dun
- enjoin
- expect
- forget
- harry
- lay down the law idiom
- mandate
- ordain
- order sb around
- overbearing
- prescribed
- steamroller
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