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As needed   /æz nˈidəd/   Listen
As needed

adverb
1.
According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).  Synonyms: as required, PRN, pro re nata.






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"As needed" Quotes from Famous Books



... contracted a very inviolable Friendship, a Friendship which grew up with them; and though it was remarkably known to every Body else, they knew it not themselves; they never made Profession of it in Words, but Actions; so true a Warmth their Fires could boast, as needed not the Effusion of their Breath to make it live. Wildvill was of the richest Family, but Frankwit of the noblest; Wildvill was admired for outward Qualifications, as Strength, and manly Proportions, Frankwit for a much softer Beauty, for his inward Endowments, Pleasing ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume V • Aphra Behn

... a regular hour for rest in the daytime. If they sleep, so much the better, as it has been proved that patients who take a nap during the day sleep better at night. After four o'clock give a drink of some kind of hot or cold substance, as needed or desired—broth, milk, lemonade. In the late afternoon sick people are often tired and restless. Change of position, rearrangement of the pillows or a good rub give comfort and relieve the restlessness. ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

... capitalist processes have gone far enough to produce a surplus that is sufficient to provide for the upkeep and for the normal expansion of industry. In "developed" countries mines are opened, factories are built, railroads are financed, as rapidly as needed, out of the domestic industrial surplus. "Undeveloped" countries are those which cannot produce sufficient capital for their own needs, and which must, therefore, depend for industrial expansion upon investments of capital from the countries that do ...
— The American Empire • Scott Nearing

... a few staples, as needed, as he walked along. The pasture partook of the general conformation of the farm—it was ...
— Hiram The Young Farmer • Burbank L. Todd

... for civil and commercial cases and one court for criminal cases); Constitutional Council (called for in Ta'if Accord - rules on constitutionality of laws); Supreme Council (hears charges against the president and prime minister as needed) ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency


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