ration
a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
an allotted amount: They finally saved up enough gas rations for the trip.
rations,
provisions: Enough rations were brought along to feed all the marchers.
Chiefly South Atlantic States. food or meals: The old hotel still has the best rations in town.
to supply, apportion, or distribute as rations (often followed by out): to ration out food to an army.
to supply or provide with rations: to ration an army with food.
to restrict the consumption of (a commodity, food, etc.): to ration meat during war.
to restrict the consumption of (a consumer): The civilian population was rationed while the war lasted.
Origin of ration
1synonym study For ration
Other words for ration
Other words from ration
- un·ra·tioned, adjective
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How to use ration in a sentence
States have made attempts to replace those meals by sending rations or cash to families, albeit with varying degrees of success.
Schools in India have been closed since March. The costs to children are mounting. | Parth M.N., Joanna Slater, Niha Masih | December 30, 2020 | Washington PostSo there’s the history of these really tightly controlled agricultural policies, as well as rations on food purchases, that continues into the early 1980s.
“He put QR-coded wristbands on each of the chickens” | Katie McLean | December 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThe World Food Program, for all its plaudits, needs to be part of that kind of answer—not just an org chart plugging hungry mouths with emergency rations, but a force that helps rebalance this off-kilter system.
Why people still starve in an age of abundance | Bobbie Johnson | December 17, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewYou don’t have to rely on weird survival rations to make it through tough times.
How to stock your pantry to endure a long, uncertain winter | By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life | November 9, 2020 | Popular-ScienceAt one point, she wrote, she lived on tiny squares of chocolate and self-rationed corn flakes.
Isabelle Caro: Anorexic Model Dies, Her Mother Commits Suicide. How Should the Fashion Industry Respond? | Barbie Latza Nadeau | February 7, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
If rationed carefully and traveling at maximum speed, I might even cover a good amount of nearby land.
The Extinction Parade: An Original Zombie Story by Max Brooks | Max Brooks | January 14, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTFood was strictly rationed and curfews deadened the late nights.
Recently she made headlines by attacking a provision in Obama's stimulus plan that she said would lead to rationed health care.
During the 1930s and up until the end of World War II, many families subsisted on bread and very little meat (sometimes rationed).
Rasyunan ang túbig sa tinghuwaw, Water is rationed during droughts.
A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan | John U. WolffWhen his carefully rationed sleep periods eventually came around, he was more than ready for them, and slept like a log.
Gone Fishing | James H. SchmitzAfter an exciting and tiring day we reach a village and having seen the crews rationed, pitch our tents.
A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State | Marcus DormanWell, she's rationed us—that's one good thing—and father really doesn't guess!
Elizabeth's Campaign | Mrs. Humphrey WardLuckily he cared nothing at all about food—though he refused to be rationed by a despotic Government.
Elizabeth's Campaign | Mrs. Humphrey Ward
British Dictionary definitions for ration
/ (ˈræʃən) /
a fixed allowance of food, provisions, etc, esp a statutory one for civilians in time of scarcity or soldiers in time of war: a tea ration
(as modifier): a ration book
a sufficient or adequate amount: you've had your ration of television for today
(often foll by out) to distribute (provisions), esp to an army
to restrict the distribution or consumption of (a commodity) by (people): the government has rationed sugar; sugar is short, so I'll have to ration you
Origin of ration
1- See also rations
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