(of a prescription drug) relating to use, or being used, in ways for which it has not been approved
off-label in American English
(ˈɔfˈleibəl, ˈɑf-)
adjective informal
of, pertaining to, or designating a drug prescribed for a particular indication even though the drug has not yet received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for that disease, condition, or symptom
Examples of 'off label' in a sentence
off label
Doctors have some flexibility in using medicines 'off-label' for other conditions where theythink they might work.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The investigation is examing allegations of so-called off-label marketing, where pharmaceutical sales representatives market medicines for uses that they have not been cleared for.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It is once you go off-radar, off-label, to try unlicenced, inadvisable procedures such as injections of liquid silicone that the risks begin to rise exponentially.